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← EQUITY ALLIANCE

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by EQUITY ALLIANCE.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,750,701
Total expenses
$1,509,732
Contributions and grants received
$1,719,667
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$31,034
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,128,068
Total liabilities, end of year
$117,651
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,010,417
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$982,213
Management and general expenses
$461,831
Fundraising expenses
$65,688
Program service expenses (Part III)
$982,213

Program services were 65.1% 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

    $1,719,667

  • 2a · Program service revenue: TEA LICENSE PLATE PROGRAM INC

    total $31,034 · related or exempt $31,034

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $231,049 · program services $115,525 · management and general $92,419 · fundraising $23,105

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $277,389 · program services $138,694 · management and general $110,956 · fundraising $27,739

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $73,688 · management and general $73,688

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $41,301 · program services $20,651 · management and general $16,520 · fundraising $4,130

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $19,194 · management and general $19,194

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $353,137 · program services $254,896 · management and general $98,241

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $108,156 · program services $108,156

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $33,660 · program services $33,660

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $22,161 · program services $8,864 · management and general $11,081 · fundraising $2,216

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $67,557 · program services $61,379 · management and general $6,178

  • 17 · Travel

    total $71,812 · program services $71,812

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $10,396 · program services $9,090 · management and general $1,306

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,852 · management and general $2,852

  • 24a · Other expenses: EVENT EXPENSES

    total $124,819 · program services $124,819

  • 24b · Other expenses: SPONSORSHIPS & DONATIONS

    total $19,598 · program services $19,598

  • 24c · Other expenses: SUPPLIES_PROGRAM

    total $15,069 · program services $15,069

  • 24d · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPEMENT

    total $10,251 · management and general $10,251

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $27,643 · management and general $19,145 · fundraising $8,498

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,105,097 · end of year $2,128,068

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

    $2,894

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

    $2,894

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $990

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $329,296 · end of year $117,651

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $1,776,791 · end of year $2,010,417

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

FOUNDED IN JANUARY 2017, THE EQUITY ALLIANCE (TEA) MISSION IS TO UNAPOLOGETICALLY BUILD INDEPENDENT BLACK POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER. WE EDUCATE, EMPOWER, AND MOBILIZE BLACK PEOPLE TO TAKE ACTION AND KEEP OUR GOVERNMENT IN CHECK.

  • IN 2022, THE EQUITY ALLIANCE ACHIEVED OVER 141,000 VOTER CONTACTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, RANGING FROM OVER 64K PHONE CALLS, 44K TEXT MESSAGES, OVER 37K MAIL CONTACTS, AND 10K DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASS CONTACTS. IN 2022 WE CRUSHED OUR LICENSE PLATE PRE-ORDER GOAL, SELLING MORE THAN 1950 PRE- ORDERS. FROM PARTY BUSES TO THE POLLS TO GIVING OVER 100 EVERYDAY TENNESSEANS THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE STATE CAPITOL, MANY FOR THE FIRST TIME. WE RECOGNIZE THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY WORKS WHEN EVERYONE HAS AN EQUITABLE CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE. IN 2022, WE EXPANDED OUR STAFF STATEWIDE AND GREW OUR LIBERTEA COLLECTIVE PROGRAM GRADUATING FOUR COHORTS TOTALING OVER 35 LIBERATORS STATEWIDE. IN 2022 THE EQUITY ALLIANCE REGISTERED OVER 7K VOTERS, WITH OVER ONE THOUSAND BEING NEW AND FIRST-TIME VOTERS. AT OUR OVER 30 VOTER ENGAGEMENT EVENTS STATEWIDE, WE SECURED OVER 550 COMMITMENTS TO VOTE IN THE 2022 GENERAL AND PRIMARY ELECTIONS. WE CONNECTED WITH MORE THAN 150 SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH OUR EVENTS AND PROGRAMS, SUCH AS THE NASHVILLE SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF FUND. THROUGH OUR FAITH-BASED I'M A FAITHFUL VOTER PROGRAM, WE GAINED OVER 24 CHURCH PARTNERS AND TRAINED TEN CIVIC DISCIPLES TO REGISTER VOTERS IN HOPES OF FURTHERING OUR MOVEMENT. SERVED OVER 141,764 PEOPLE.

    Expenses $982,213

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Tequila Johnson

    CO EXCU DIRE

    Total calculated
    $116,086
    From this org
    $116,086
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Charlane Oliver

    CO EXEC DIRE

    Total calculated
    $114,963
    From this org
    $114,963
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Board Of Directors-Please See Attac

    BOARD OF DIR

    Total calculated
    $0

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
13 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202333179349311898

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