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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT.

Totals

Total revenue
$299,352
Total expenses
$286,543
Contributions and grants received
$299,352
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$359,023
Total liabilities, end of year
$75,000
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$284,023
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$143,251
Management and general expenses
$138,642
Fundraising expenses
$4,650
Program service expenses (Part III)
$151,517

Program services were 50.0% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $288,316

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $11,036

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $73,600 · management and general $73,600

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $46,061 · program services $18,311 · management and general $27,750

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,000 · management and general $1,000

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $4,650 · fundraising $4,650

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,326 · management and general $2,326

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $150 · program services $150

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $205 · program services $205

  • 17 · Travel

    total $18,164 · program services $14,083 · management and general $4,081

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,533 · management and general $1,533

  • 24a · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT

    total $2,855 · management and general $2,855

  • 24b · Other expenses: PRINTING

    total $9,215 · management and general $9,215

  • 24c · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $108,729 · program services $98,159 · management and general $10,570

  • 24d · Other expenses: SOFTWARE

    total $4,058 · management and general $4,058

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $13,997 · program services $12,343 · management and general $1,654

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $76,992 · end of year $82,023

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $40,000 · end of year $277,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $40,000 · end of year $75,000

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $76,992 · end of year $284,023

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Caribbean Equality Project is a NYC based community organization that empowers, advocates for and represents Afro and Indo Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City

  • In 2022,Caribbean Equality Project launched Queeribbean Crossings, a community-centered transnational conference fostering conversation surrounding queer and trans Caribbean histories and contemporary lived realities of marginalization, struggle,resistance, and liberation. Hosted and organized annually by the Caribbean Equality Project, in partnership withthe CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium in recognition of 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights Day, the conference focuses on confronting

    Expenses $37,820

  • The Caribbean Equality Projects launched its monthly Food Justice program in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its economic crises impacting Caribbean-centric neighborhoods across New York City. Collectively, with its community partners and elected officials, the organization distributes culturally responsive groceries, fresh produce, PPE, toiletries, period products, safe sex kits, and coats and toys, especially during the Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, and Kwanzaa holidays. In 2022, the organization served over 16,200+ low-income and undocumented LGBTQ+ people, immigrant families, seniors, single-parent households, and HIV-impacted people through the organizations food justice program. CEP has organized over 9+ hyper-local pop-up pantries in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Soundview, in The Bronx, serving an average of 350-450 families

    Expenses $24,366

  • Caribbean Equality Projects Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics exhibition celebrated queer and trans Caribbean resilience through a racial justice lens,fostering critical conversations related to pride, migration, surviving colliding pandemics,and coming out narratives. Caribbean diasporic immigrant rights, gender justice, and trans rights advocates live at the intersections of outdated immigration policies, anti-Black violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender-based violence, xenophobia, and misogyny in the United States and throughout the Caribbean region. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, queer and trans immigrants of color have lived ina constant state of fear and isolation, from food insecurity, and a lack of access toequitable healthcare, to rising rates of anti-Asian violence and police brutality against

    Expenses $21,180

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Mohamed Q Amin

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Darren J Glenn

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Theo Brown

    PUBLIC RELATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kadeem Robinson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sai Ali

    UNCHAINED PROGRAM MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Tiffany Jade Munrow

    TRANS JUSTICE COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Isabella D Fernandes

    COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Nalima Amin

    VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Diahann Browne

    BROOKLYN UNCHAINED FACILITATOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Steven Rose

    SEXUAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS MANAGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Xoe Sazzle

    COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL CONTEN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
29 May 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202431509349300438

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