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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCH.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,710,241
Total expenses
$2,756,518
Contributions and grants received
$1,572,538
Grants paid
$845,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$1,137,703
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$17,740,542
Total liabilities, end of year
$306,944
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$17,433,598
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,032,430
Management and general expenses
$446,383
Fundraising expenses
$277,705
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,032,430

Program services were 73.7% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $602,501

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $970,037

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $649,318 · excluded $649,318

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $8,963,885

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $8,475,500

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $488,385

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $488,385 · excluded $488,385

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $845,000 · program services $845,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $186,220 · program services $140,204 · management and general $18,120 · fundraising $27,896

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $740,425 · program services $521,531 · management and general $81,129 · fundraising $137,765

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $33,316 · program services $24,862 · management and general $3,329 · fundraising $5,125

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $91,294 · program services $62,083 · management and general $15,583 · fundraising $13,628

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $69,678 · program services $48,413 · management and general $9,358 · fundraising $11,907

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $33,150 · program services $8,340 · management and general $23,011 · fundraising $1,799

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $95,678 · management and general $95,678

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $90,020 · program services $21,354 · management and general $63,687 · fundraising $4,979

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $37,407 · program services $2,720 · management and general $28,441 · fundraising $6,246

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $57,127 · program services $14,851 · management and general $29,978 · fundraising $12,298

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $213,592 · program services $191,540 · management and general $10,586 · fundraising $11,466

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $11,953 · program services $2,021 · management and general $2,011 · fundraising $7,921

  • 20 · Interest

    total $15,374 · management and general $15,374

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $15,081 · program services $7,218 · management and general $7,863

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $48,416 · program services $5,569 · management and general $42,235 · fundraising $612

  • 24a · Other expenses: FIELD TRIPS AND PROGRAM

    total $151,484 · program services $136,724 · fundraising $14,760

  • 24b · Other expenses: FUNDRAISING EXPENSE

    total $21,303 · fundraising $21,303

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $563,652 · end of year $271,516

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $200,611 · end of year $200,711

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $107,210 · end of year $92,309

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $8,250 · end of year $0

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

    $370,555

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

    $332,234

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $51,805 · end of year $38,321

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $16,755,706 · end of year $17,078,689

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $58,097 · end of year $58,996

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $125,392 · end of year $115,815

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $189,753 · end of year $189,753

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $107,915 · end of year $1,376

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $15,394,777 · end of year $15,930,250

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,927,494 · end of year $1,503,348

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY (DBA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST URBAN MINISTRY) WORKS ACROSS RACE AND PLACE TO DISMANTLE RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE AND TO ADVANCE RACIAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE.

  • THE ORGANIZATION'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING - 1. STRENGTHENED THE YOUTH PROGRAM STRUCTURE.2. REDESIGNED OUR "SEEING ME IN THE WORLD" PROGRAM.3. FORMALIZED OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH DYNAMIC SENIORS, AN ELDER GROUP.

    Expenses $2,032,430 · Grants $845,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Nishaila Porter

    BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Karla Baehr

    BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Tom Roose

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Marisa Luse

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Lisa Snellings Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Rev David Egan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Thomas Plant

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Marshall Hughes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Marcia Butman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Doug Poutasse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Brian Keith

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL OCT 24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Rev Chris Jablonski

    DIRECTOR (SINCE MAY 24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Ruby Jordan-Borges

    DIRECTOR (SINCE MAY 24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Rev Mary Margaret Earl

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $175,856
    From this org
    $106,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,523
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $106,333
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,439
    Nontaxable benefits
    $53,084
    Filer's total
    $175,856

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

  • 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 1A
THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES REV. MARY MARGARET EARL, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND SR. MINISTER A PARSONAGE. THE PARSONAGE WAS NOT TREATED AS TAXABLE COMPENSATION.

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

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • JOHN ELIOT CORPORATION

    501(C)(3) · CHARITABLE · MA · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
12 March 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202620729349300822

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