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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,080,062
Total expenses
$689,017
Contributions and grants received
$601,054
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$302,047
Investment income
$154,846
Other revenue
$22,115
Total assets, end of year
$5,072,777
Total liabilities, end of year
$68,425
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$5,004,352
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$585,072
Management and general expenses
$83,288
Fundraising expenses
$20,657
Program service expenses (Part III)
$585,072

Program services were 84.9% 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

    $601,054

  • 2a · Program service revenue: ATTORNEYS FEES

    total $302,047 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $154,846 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $154,846

  • 6a · Gross rents

    personal property $8,040

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    personal property $8,040

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $8,040 · excluded $8,040

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $34,058

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $20,137

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $13,921 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $13,921

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER

    total $154 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $154

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $154

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $142,953 · program services $121,510 · management and general $14,295 · fundraising $7,148

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $196,450 · program services $166,985 · management and general $19,644 · fundraising $9,821

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $25,857 · program services $21,978 · management and general $2,586 · fundraising $1,293

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $25,766 · program services $21,901 · management and general $2,577 · fundraising $1,288

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $30,528 · program services $0 · management and general $30,528 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $125,680 · program services $119,179 · management and general $6,501 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,231 · program services $7,079 · management and general $987 · fundraising $165

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $13,523 · program services $11,858 · management and general $1,623 · fundraising $42

  • 17 · Travel

    total $10,737 · program services $10,737 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $9,848 · program services $8,863 · management and general $985 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,374 · program services $8,154 · management and general $1,126 · fundraising $94

  • 24a · Other expenses: NEWSLETTER

    total $21,770 · program services $21,770 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSE

    total $22,197 · program services $22,197 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: CASE COST

    total $5,630 · program services $5,630 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT RENTAL

    total $9,482 · program services $8,913 · management and general $379 · fundraising $190

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $30,991 · program services $28,318 · management and general $2,057 · fundraising $616

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $411,411 · end of year $21,712

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $686,625

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $45,885 · end of year $34,863

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $50 · end of year $50

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $4,973 · end of year $4,202

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

    $358,005

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

    $92,716

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $278,617 · end of year $265,289

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $3,607,736 · end of year $4,060,036

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $79,339 · end of year $68,425

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,269,333 · end of year $5,004,352

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND EDUCATION

  • Provided legal representation and participated in over 30 lawsuits and administrative actions on a wide range of issues, including a successful suit over a citys refusal to allow a resident to speak at a public meeting; successful representation of a student with disabilities who was unlawfully assaulted and arrested by a school resource officer; representation of a town resident who was sued by a local fire district for testifying against the district at an administrative hearing; and a court decision refusing to dismiss a lawsuit we filed seeking remedies for thousands of current and former state employees whose persoanl health care information was breached.

    Expenses $292,536 · Revenue $302,047

  • Prepared, publicized and disseminated an array of know your rights materials in both English and Spanish on a variety of civil liberties issues, including students rights and rights of people in encouters with the police; and issued public reports examining the public comment policies of city and town councils and school committee, and the availablity of remote access by the public to governmental meetings post-covid.

    Expenses $128,716

  • Organized and participated in a variety of events during the year to make people aware of their rights and stimulate public discussion on civil liberties issues, including: an annual meeting discussion with attorneys and clients involved in major ACLU cases; a review of enacted state laws in 2023 affecting civil liberties; a review of important civil liberties cases in the 2022-2023 U.S. Supreme Court term; and an event celebrating Banned Books Week.

    Expenses $163,820

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Katherine Itacy

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christine Lopes Metcalfe

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jennifer Azevedo

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Carl Krueger

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Ian Knowles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Anne Mulready

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Steven Brown

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $174,333
    From this org
    $142,953
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,380
    Hours/week
    32

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

No itemized grants to organizations 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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
4 June 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202432619349300418

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