Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,735,085
- Total expenses
- $703,751
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,488,833
- Grants paid
- $29,960
- Program service revenue
- $203,683
- Investment income
- $42,569
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,727,359
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,380,154
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,347,205
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $614,989
- Management and general expenses
- $86,762
- Fundraising expenses
- $2,000
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $614,989
Program services were 87.4% 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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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,488,833
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: Solar Subscriber Management System
total $203,683 · related or exempt $203,683 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $42,569 · related or exempt $42,569 · 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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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$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 $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $29,960 · program services $29,960
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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 $27,200 · program services $27,200 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $357,899 · program services $357,899
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $42,215 · management and general $42,215
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11a · Fees: management
total $34,347 · program services $34,347
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11b · Fees: legal
total $1,850 · program services $1,850
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $31,410 · program services $31,410
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $2,000 · fundraising $2,000
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $10,000 · program services $10,000
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $17,917 · program services $17,917
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13 · Office expenses
total $5,812 · management and general $5,812
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14 · Information technology
total $6,360 · program services $6,360
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17 · Travel
total -$41,400 · program services -$41,400
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $132,717 · program services $132,717
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $774 · management and general $774
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23 · Insurance
total $11,137 · management and general $11,137
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24a · Other expenses: bank fees
total $1,099 · program services $1,099 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: government fees
total $24,315 · program services $0 · management and general $24,315 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: change in risk assessment of investments
total $5,630 · program services $5,630 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $2,509 · management and general $2,509
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $536,169 · end of year $2,310,209
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $389,150
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$12,386
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$12,386
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $774 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $424,744 · end of year $28,000
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $3,813 · end of year $1,615
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $509,577 · end of year $1,331,098
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $1,675 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $35,488 · end of year $21,908
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $67,194 · end of year $25,533
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $270,994 · end of year $534,099
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $72,946 · end of year $813,106
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
Common Good shifts power from big business and distant government back to communities, where we see what's needed and care enough to support each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and guaranteed work. In a Common Good Economy, we gather locally to decide for ourselves our funding priorities -- with plenty of money to fund those decisions. Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Common Good builds tools for a new community-centered democratic economy that supports each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat and a place to live, so that everyone is free to contribute to society in a way that brings them joy.
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The Truth Telling Project: to support and implement grassroots, community-centered truth-telling and reparations processes to achieve Black liberation and BIPOC solidarity, amplify traditionally silenced and disenfranchised voices, and abolish white supremacy
Expenses $310,000 · Grants $16,000 · Revenue $949,900
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Common Good Democratic Economics System: We design, promote, and support software, strategies, and contracts for a community-centered democratic economy.
Expenses -$18,445 · Grants $105 · Revenue $480,843
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Solar Subscriber Management System: We design and maintain software for managing subscriptions to cooperatively-owned community solar electric arrays, as a way to leverage more participation in our Common Good Democratic Economics System (see above)
Expenses $142,578 · Revenue $203,683
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Kibilio Community and Farm: an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice, working cooperatively toward educating for indigenous land justice and ecological balance.
Expenses $40,000 · Revenue $5,834
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Elmer's Community Center: preserving a building in Ashfield, MA as a place for community and cultural events.
Expenses $760 · Revenue $285
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Nonprofit Accountability Group:promoting racial equity, education, and environmental justice through the arts.
Expenses $90,896 · Grants $11,505 · Revenue $94,861
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Food Fund: supporting members in helping others who are food insecure
Expenses $3,200 · Revenue $179
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WellMoney: redefining financial aid, moving away from traditional models of philanthropy to an empowering, community-centric model, building a community where members support each other during financial emergencies.
Expenses $43,000 · Revenue $46,500
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Haven's Harvest: offering timely and reliable surplus food pick-up and delivery in the New Haven, Connecticut area, connecting businesses with community sites through the transfer of high quality excess food. Recovered food is a community resource. Don't let good food go to waste!
Expenses $3,000 · Grants $2,350 · Revenue $3,000
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Anthony Campbell
Software Engineer
- Total calculated
- $108,606
- From this org
- $108,606
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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William Spademan
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $27,200
- From this org
- $27,200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Helen Perham
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gary Schaefer
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Abigail Ferla
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- 10 April 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202521049349300617
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