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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by SOULARDARITY.

Totals

Total revenue
$568,440
Total expenses
$953,160
Contributions and grants received
$568,177
Grants paid
$7,833
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$263
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$522,036
Total liabilities, end of year
$53,723
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$468,313
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$953,160
Management and general expenses
$0
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$953,160

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.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $0

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $0

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $568,177

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

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

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $263 · related or exempt $263 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

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

  • 5 · Royalties

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

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

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

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $0 · other assets $0

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

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

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

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 9a · Gaming: gross income

    $0

  • 9b · Gaming: direct expenses

    $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

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

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $0

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

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

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,100 · program services $1,100

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $6,733 · program services $6,733

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $68,896 · program services $68,896

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $197,722 · program services $197,722

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $39,163 · program services $39,163

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $24,185 · program services $24,185

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $108,657 · program services $108,657

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $95,923 · program services $95,923

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $147,924 · program services $147,924

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,680 · program services $1,680

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $12,656 · program services $12,656

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $40,009 · program services $40,009

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $3,000 · program services $3,000

  • 17 · Travel

    total $5,042 · program services $5,042

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $16,916 · program services $16,916

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $10,378 · program services $10,378

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,608 · program services $4,608

  • 24a · Other expenses: Professional Services

    total $44,732 · program services $44,732 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues and Subscriptions

    total $8,021 · program services $8,021 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Outside Vendor Contractors

    total $114,950 · program services $114,950 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $865 · program services $865 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $183,661 · end of year $56,071

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $501,180 · end of year $279,443

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $4,972 · end of year $6,375

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $12,211 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $113 · end of year $109

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

    $260,053

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

    $68,724

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $201,707 · end of year $191,329

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,430 · end of year -$11,291

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $8,159 · end of year $12,090

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $46,082 · end of year $41,633

  • 29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $853,033 · end of year $468,313

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Soulardarity is working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with Highland Park, MI and neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all. Soulardarity endeavors to achieve this goal through education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy.

  • Movement Building. State-Level Energy Democracy- a series of campaigns and coalition work to achieve affordability, health, and community-owned clean energy aimed at DTE, the MI Public Service Commission, and the legislature. Soulardarity is the only community-based organization with a strong legal presence at the MPSC fighting and building toward goals of racial and economic justice. We have leveraged legal intervention with public campaign work to win material victories to rate payers of SE Michigan including stopping regressive rate hikes, getting concessions from DTE to build low-income benefitting solar projects, and getting public health considered in energy decisions.

    Expenses $476,580 · Grants $635,163

  • Asset Development: Highland Park Campaign Team-a campaign to make Highland Park, MI a global model of sustainability and self-determination, targeted at the City of Highland Park, organized around the Blueprint for Energy Democracy, the product of seven years of community organizing, research, and democratic practice and guide for our multi-issue work. Grow Solar Highland Park-Detroit-a public education and bulk purchasing program that makes going solar easier and more affordable. Creates access to energy-related products and services for Low-to-Moderate-Income ratepayers and members in support of a just transition to clean energy. Eligibility extends to property owners throughout the Detroit metro area and Wayne County. Once per year we offer the MREA sponsored RiseUP Training course established in 2020 to support workforce development efforts and expand employment access in advanced energy by providing solar training scholarships and facilitation paid solar internships. Graduates of the RiseUP Training Program provide students with free, hands-on solar training that can take them from "square one" all the way to their NABCP PV Associate Exam. We are currently working with Polar Bear Sustainable Energy Co-op to implement a home solar bulk purchase program and weatherization/home repair program as case studies of community wealth building through clean energy. Under this program we are preparing to launch a Loan Loss Reserve program - a credit enhancement approach commonly used by state and local governments to provide partial risk coverage to lenders--meaning that the reserve will cover a pre-specified amount of loan losses for those looking to weatherize, electrify, and participate in the bulk purchase or solarize their homes.

    Expenses $476,580 · Grants $635,163

  • there is only two program areas to report on

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Shimekia Nichols

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $68,896
    From this org
    $68,896
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Stacye Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michelle F Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kimberly McDade

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jeana Tall

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Camille Sippel

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nancy Gambrill

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kenneth Bates

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
2023
Filed
26 August 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202442469349300704

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