Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,441,218

Total expenses

$1,456,590

Contributions and grants received

$1,226,223

Grants paid

$16,429

Program service revenue

$189,777

Investment income

$838

Other revenue

$24,380

Total assets, end of year

$1,240,328

Total liabilities, end of year

$47,575

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,192,753

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,030,676

Management and general expenses

$372,074

Fundraising expenses

$53,840

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,030,676

Program services were 70.8% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• IN 2022, MN350 CONTINUED WORKING TOWARDS ITS MISSION TO UNITE MINNESOTANS AS PART OF A GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO END THE POLLUTION DAMAGING OUR CLIMATE, SPEED THE TRANSITION TO CLEAN ENERGY, AND CREATE A JUST AND HEALTHY FUTURE FOR ALL. WE CONTINUED TO SCALE UP OUR WORK WITH NEARLY 62,000 CONTACTS IN OUR DATABASE AND OVER 5,500 ACTIVE SUPPORTERS WHO VOLUNTEERED AND RAISED AWARENESS FOR OUR CAMPAIGNS AND ISSUES STATEWIDE.OUR MULTIPRONGED APPROACH TO COMBATTING CLIMATE INJUSTICE INVOLVES OPPOSING POLLUTION FROM PIPELINES AND VEHICLES, FIGHTING FOR TREATY RIGHTS AND FOR MORE EQUITABLE PUBLIC TRANSIT, ADVOCATING FOR REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND A LOCAL GREEN NEW DEAL, SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS WATER PROTECTORS AND THE FAMILIES OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES, GETTING OUT THE VOTE, EDUCATING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND MORE. SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022:OUR TRANSIT JUSTICE TEAM CONTINUED TO ORGANIZE TRANSIT RIDERS TO ENSURE A FUTURE IN WHICH OUR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM SERVES AS A VEHICLE TO BOTH REDUCE EMISSIONS AND PRIORITIZE MOBILITY JUSTICE SUPPORTING ECONOMICALLY-DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE TO EFFICIENTLY GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. IN 2022, WE BUILT RIDER POWER WITH NEARLY 1,500 MEMBERS. WE CANVASSED THE TRANSIT SYSTEM, ORGANIZED RIDERS TO TELL THEIR STORIES, AND CONNECTED WITH HUNDREDS OF RIDERS ABOUT SAFETY, FAIRS AND ACCESSIBILITY.OUR CLEAN TRANSPORTATION TEAM SUPPORTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN PETITIONING FOR ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES, WORKED TO INCREASE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE FOR MEDIUM AND HEAVY DUTY TRUCK ELECTRIFICATION, AND WORKED TO SECURE THE GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE ON A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING TO COMMIT TO ELECTRIFYING MEDIUM AND HEAVY DUTY TRUCKS.OUR FOOD SYSTEMS TEAM CONTINUES TO SPEED THE TRANSITION TO A RESILIENT, REGENERATIVE, AND INCLUSIVE FOOD SYSTEM IN MINNESOTA BY TAKING UP A DIVERSE RANGE OF EFFORTS THAT LINK RACIAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE. IN 2022, WE LAUNCHED THE DEFAULT VEG CAMPAIGN, DEVELOPED A REGENERATIVE FOODS BUYER'S GUIDE, EMPOWERED AND TRAINED PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR STORIES WITH PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER, AND EXPANDED OUR FOOD WASTE INITIATIVE.OUR GREEN NEW DEAL TEAM WORKED WITH A COALITION OF BIPOC GROUPS TO ADVANCE THE UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES IN THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS TO INCREASE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ECOLOGICAL QUALITY OF DWELLINGS, PRIORITIZING INVESTMENTS IN CONCENTRATED POVERTY ZONES. WORKING WITH LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ENERGY DEMOCRACY AND LOW-WAGE WORKER/IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, WE MOBILIZED MINNEAPOLITANS TO MOVE THEIR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE MAYOR TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE'S CLIMATE & EQUITY PLAN BY BUILDING TEAMS IN ALL 13 WARDS, SENDING 700 POSTCARDS, AND MAKING OVER 270 PHONE CALLS TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.THE PIPELINE RESISTANCE TEAM CREATED A NEW STRATEGIC PLAN INCLUDING A SLATE OF POLICY PRIORITIES GROUNDED IN OUR EXPERIENCE IN LINE 3'S REGULATORY PROCESS. THIS, PAIRED WITH A BASE OF SUPPORT FROM ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PIPELINE FIGHT, LEAVES US WELL-POISED TO MOVE OUR VISION FORWARD IN 2023.FOLLOWING THE LEADERSHIP OF INDIGENOUS ORGANIZERS, MN350 CONTINUES TO BRAID THE DEFENSE OF TREATY RIGHTS INTO OUR CLIMATE JUSTICE WORK. OUR TREATY RIGHTS TEAM HELD A NUMBER OF EVENTS INCLUDING 'WE ARE ALL TREATY PEOPLE,' AN EVENT CENTERING THE TREATIES AS PART OF OUR SHARED HISTORY AS AMERICANS AND NATIVE PEOPLE, AND THE "GET OUT THE VOTE NATIVE STYLE" RALLY IN BELTRAMI COUNTY WITH OVER TWENTY CANDIDATES ACROSS PARTIES, REACHING HUNDREDS OF VOTERS. IN 2022, WE BROUGHT JESSICA GIDAGAAKOONS SMITH ON STAFF AS OUR MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES ORGANIZER. HER WORK FOCUSED ON LEGAL ADVOCACY, WORKING ON MURDER, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CHILD ABUSE CASES AND HELPING SUPPORT WATER PROTECTORS WHO WERE CRIMINALIZED BECAUSE OF THE LINE 3 FIGHT.2022 ALSO SAW THE DEPARTURE OF SOME BELOVED COLLEAGUES AND THE EXPANSION OF OUR CAPACITY THROUGH THE ADDITION OF NEW STAFF INCLUDING FIVE AMAZING ORGANIZERS, A CFO, OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR, POLITICAL MANAGER, ORGANIZING DIRECTOR, AND TEE MCCLENTY, OUR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. ADDING THESE ROLES TO OUR EXISTING TEAM OF ORGANIZERS AND COMMUNICATIONS STAFF, WE ARE EAGER AND ENERGIZED TO CONTINUE TO GROW OUR MOVEMENT IN 2023.IN 2023, WE INTEND TO GROW THE MOVEMENT TO MEET THE SCALE OF THE CHALLENGE WE FACE THROUGH CONTINUED RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING, CONTINUING TO DIVERSIFY OUR BASE THROUGH KEY PARTNERSHIPS AND FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP, AND GROWING OUR BASE IN GREATER MINNESOTA.INTERNALLY, MN350 HAS BEEN WORKING TO ENSURE THE POLICIES, PROCEDURES, PRACTICES, AND TRAINING ARE IN PLACE TO MOVE INTO A CULTURE OF LEARNING AND HEALING AND TO AUTHENTICALLY CENTER BIPOC COMMUNITIES IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR WORK. IN 2022, THIS INCLUDED AN INTERNAL INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY (IDI) WITH OUR STAFF AND BOARD AND A TRANSITION TO BECOMING A COMMUNITY-LED AND VOLUNTEER-POWERED ORGANIZATION. SO MUCH OF OUR STRENGTH HAS COME FROM OUR WORK IN COALITION WITH THOSE ON THE FRONTLINES OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS. BEING LED BY THE COMMUNITY MAKES OUR WORK BETTER, DEEPER, AND MORE IMPACTFUL.

  Expenses $1,030,676 · Grants $16,429 · Revenue $189,777

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

Listed in Part VII

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.

• MN350 ACTION

  501(C)(4) · PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION · MN

  Directly controlled by MN350

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

17 July 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202302569349300820

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