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← OURSPACE WORLD INC

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by OURSPACE WORLD INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,468,468
Total expenses
$928,649
Contributions and grants received
$1,326,101
Grants paid
$96,183
Program service revenue
$142,345
Investment income
$22
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$928,630
Total liabilities, end of year
$172,884
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$755,746
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$782,113
Management and general expenses
$146,536
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$782,113

Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $536,175

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $789,926

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $4,630

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Shared Services Cooperative

    total $84,386 · related or exempt $84,386 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Fiscal Sponsorship

    total $55,535 · related or exempt $55,535 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Technical Assistance

    total $2,274 · related or exempt $2,274 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2d · Program service revenue: African-Centered Youth Summer Camp Program

    total $150 · related or exempt $150 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $22 · related or exempt $22 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $96,183 · program services $96,183

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $129,808 · program services $63,654 · management and general $66,154

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $62,019 · program services $62,019

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $3,488 · management and general $3,488

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $15,243 · program services $9,764 · management and general $5,479

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $406 · program services $158 · management and general $248

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $43,215 · management and general $43,215

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $383,723 · program services $376,119 · management and general $7,604

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $130 · program services $25 · management and general $105

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $130,667 · program services $125,483 · management and general $5,184

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $4,800 · management and general $4,800

  • 17 · Travel

    total $14,531 · program services $14,414 · management and general $117

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $18,133 · program services $17,968 · management and general $165

  • 20 · Interest

    total $43 · program services $43

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $16,085 · program services $16,085 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $10,175 · program services $198 · management and general $9,977

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $200,044 · end of year $689,914

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $2,000 · end of year $6,702

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $5,785

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $247,262

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $21,033

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $36,625 · end of year $226,229

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $21,028

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $1,193 · end of year $166,846

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $520 · end of year $6,038

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $44,731 · end of year $202,184

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $171,197 · end of year $553,562

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

We help systematically disadvantaged farmers, builders, healers, and educators attain sovereignty and sustainability through partnerships and wise resource acquisition and management. OurSpace World builds capacity and long-term community sustainability through supporting education and service to the land. We help support whole-person health, low-cost sustainable housing, education, and regenerative farm and land renewal practices through skills training and technical assistance. OurSpace World's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OurSpace World's program goals. OurSpace World manages project finances and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OurSpace World's mission.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of OurSpace World is to cooperatively educate, organize, and support groups of earth healers and land stewards. We help systematically disadvantaged farmers, builders, healers, and educators attain sovereignty and sustainability through partnerships and wise resource acquisition and management.

  • TUI: Community cooperative support. OSW supports the cooperative efforts of land and food centric enterprises and the workers involved. The organization supports the synergistic goals of different stakeholder groups by helping to coordinate shared labor, shared markets, and other resources that can be leveraged for broad community impact.

    Expenses $343,391 · Grants $722,945 · Revenue $82,803

  • Calabash: Fiscal Sponsorship. OSW's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OSW's vision and program goals. OSW manages project finance and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OSW's mission. Calabash trains technical assistance providers to support farmers with business planning and grant writing.

    Expenses $291,172 · Grants $413,761 · Revenue $57,808

  • Teach 22: Education, skills building, and training for job and economic development. OSW's historical mission has been to build leadership within the community by teaching and training valuable skills to individuals in the community to support growth of whole-person health, sustainable housing, and education. OSW has added farming, natural building, and land management skills to this. The organization trains people in basic farming and construction of basic farm infrastructure every year. OSW's Teach 22: Journeys programming is designed to give students a break from technology and virtual learning by giving them hands-on learning enrichment in natural settings such as farms and parks. Camp EarthPact during the summer, and Earth School during the school year, are the branches of Teach 22 youth programming OSW is currently refining.

    Expenses $147,550 · Grants $46,500 · Revenue $2,221

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Aita Amaize

    Administrative Director

    Total calculated
    $65,769
    From this org
    $65,769
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kwabena Sika

    Operations Director

    Total calculated
    $64,038
    From this org
    $64,038
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nichele Vaughn

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adjoa Oriyomi

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deanna Barath

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LaShaune Stitt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dorothy Morrison

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

  • Fountain Heights Cooperative LLC Maria Dominique Villanueva

    $30,818

    Capital campaign for on-farm infrastructure and access to fresh, healthy, local food in their community of focus.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
8 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202441369349319154

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