Totals
- Total revenue
- $640,386
- Total expenses
- $608,960
- Contributions and grants received
- $639,143
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $1
- Other revenue
- $1,242
- Total assets, end of year
- $292,090
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $5,967
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $286,123
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $486,953
- Management and general expenses
- $61,609
- Fundraising expenses
- $60,398
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $486,953
Program services were 80.0% 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.
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$639,143
-
3 · Investment income
total $1 · excluded $1
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous Income
total $1,242 · excluded $1,242
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$1,242
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $299,607 · program services $239,685 · management and general $29,961 · fundraising $29,961
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $50,621 · program services $41,585 · management and general $1,452 · fundraising $7,584
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $1,908 · program services $1,717 · fundraising $191
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $32,564 · program services $29,308 · fundraising $3,256
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $1,811 · management and general $1,811
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $28,385 · management and general $28,385
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $60,208 · program services $54,187 · fundraising $6,021
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $15,632 · program services $14,069 · fundraising $1,563
-
14 · Information technology
total $4,452 · program services $4,007 · fundraising $445
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $75,263 · program services $67,737 · fundraising $7,526
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $32,706 · program services $29,435 · fundraising $3,271
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $5,803 · program services $5,223 · fundraising $580
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $32,326 · end of year $42,232
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $4,983 · end of year $4,858
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $300,000 · end of year $245,000
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $1,069 · end of year $0
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $57,442 · end of year $5,967
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $280,936 · end of year $286,123
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
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Our Ecosystem Building strategy works to facilitate and support a multisectoral network of leaders - including civil society, community-based organizations, national civil rights groups, academia, philanthropy, and government - to co-create and build a new movement to confront and dismantle U.S. colonialism. Key highlights: conducting an artist listening tour that included 6 community dialogues with more than 70 participants across all five territories and DC; facilitating virtual and in-person learning sessions around the need to confront the undemocratic colonial framework governing the territories; co-creating and facilitating a cross-territorial coalition with five working groups focused on policy advocacy, litigation, organizing, international law & Indigenous rights, and education & media; elevating territory voices and facilitating the participation of more than 51 territorial representatives in national and local events.
Expenses $219,129
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Our Participatory Advocacy program works to confront and dismantle the undemocratic colonial framework governing all five U.S. territories through policy, advocacy, and litigation strategies that are developed by engaging people and communities from each territory, their diaspora, and throughout the United States. Our advocacy is directed towards creating systemic change and accountability across all three branches of the federal government. Key highlights: engaging civil rights, social justice, and community partners as well as congressional allies to press the U.S. Department of Justice to condemn the Insular Cases; developing new client-centered litigation focused on democracy, self-governance, and self-determination; advancing equity in federal benefits programs, philanthropic investments, data collection, and veterans services; and addressing issues of climate and environmental justice. Our work is supported by more than 1,000 hours of pro bono support from law firm partners.
Expenses $146,086
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Our Narrative and Cultural Change program works to combat the cultural normalization of undemocratic colonial rule in U.S. territories. We do this through engagement with journalists, educators, artists, and others, both in the territories and throughout the United States, leveraging our advocacy to raise the visibility of these issues both at a national level and in each territory. Key highlights: artist listening tour across the territories and convenings for the Decolonial Monument Project with national and local partners; highlight colonial injuries and their intersections with trending issues and current events to increase awareness of US colonialism; Op-Ed placements in national and local media; a social media campaign on the 125th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris and the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; developing historical educational primers for each of the territories.
Expenses $121,738
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Neil Weare
Co-Director & Co-President
- Total calculated
- $162,953
- From this org
- $155,408
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,545
- Hours/week
- 38
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,408
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $7,545
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $162,953
-
Adi Martinez Roman
Co-Director & Co-President
- Total calculated
- $136,654
- From this org
- $136,654
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 38
-
Ataveyra Medina Hernandez
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Roger Maldonado
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zen Hunter-Ishikawa
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Adriel Cepeda Derieux
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Charles Ala'ilima
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kaleo Moylan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Nesha Christian-Hendrickson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Vanessa Williams
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cecilio Ortiz
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Zeno Deleon Guerrero
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Edward Smith II
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Susan Atkins
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 14 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523189349304262
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