Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by OBADIAH BROWNS BENEVOLENT FUND.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $94,882
- Total expenses
- $208,738
- Contributions and grants received
- $0
- Grants paid
- $180,325
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $94,882
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $6,238,821
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $6,238,821
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $208,738
- Management and general expenses
- $0
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $208,738
Program services were 100.0% 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.
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3 · Investment income
total $94,882 · related or exempt $94,882 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $180,325 · program services $180,325
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $28,413 · program services $28,413 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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20 · Interest
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $12,950 · end of year $10,532
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $5,589,742 · end of year $6,228,289
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds
beginning of year $5,602,692 · end of year $6,238,821
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30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
"To receive and appropriate to benevolent purposes, annually, principally for the benefit of our religious society, so that it may be for the Honour of Trueth, as well as otherwise spreading our Religious Principles where they are little known." from the 1823 Will of Obadiah M. Brown. Grants are made to Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) Churches and Quaker 501(c)3 organizations.
Activities or mission (Part I)
A benevolent fund formed under the terms of the will of Obadiah M. Brown, to benefit the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Quaker organizations.
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Grants made to Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) Churches and Quaker 501(c)3 organizations.
Expenses $208,738 · Grants $180,325 · Revenue $846,477
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Chris Arico-Muendel
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Gretchen Baker-Smith
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Pamela Dahlberg
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Hugh Gelch
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Thia Lord
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Mark Orloski
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Nathanial Shed
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Liesa Stamm
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Ralph B Gentile
Clerk and Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Paul C Mangelsdorf
Treasurer and Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Ann Dodd Collins
Secretary and Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.75
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
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$20,000
Support for Black Quaker Project
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Mt Toby Friends Meeting
$20,000
Replace Roof on Meetinghouse
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New England Yearly Meeting of Friends
$20,000
Vehicle Purchase
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$15,000
Support for ongoing work
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Vassalboro Friends Meeting
$15,000
Support for Ministry of the Wild project
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$10,000
Continuing support for Revitalizing Quakerism at Moses Brown School
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West Falmouth Friends Meeting
$10,000
Support for the Life and Times of William James Project
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Quaker Publication Library project
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Midcoast Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
$7,800
Meeting House Repairs
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$7,575
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Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 17 July 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202611989349300346
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