Form 990-EZ for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$84,714

Total expenses

$61,794

Contributions and grants received

$20,550

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$64,163

Membership dues (line 3)

$0

Investment income (line 4)

$1

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

$0

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$0

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

$0

Other revenue (line 8)

$0

Total assets, end of year

$117,267

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$117,267

Program service expenses (Part III)

$20,000

Program services were 32.4% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Economically sustainable and adaptive reuse and transformation of the abandoned, city-owned Lincoln Detox Center into a center for holistic health education and the arts HEARTS Community Center, and organizing outdoor community events in front of the building with free health screenings and education. A few dozen residents attended each month. We have organized hundreds of residents to join a community visioning session for the building with the NYC Economic Development Corporation. We started drafting a response with a joint venture developer partner for the HEARTS facility development in response to NYC RFP.

  Expenses $9,000 · Grants $10,000

• We collaborated on a festival featuring participatory art-making followed by a procession of hundreds of community residents and international media to the waterfront with Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet of a ten-year-old Syrian girl who traveled worldwide to raise awareness of social injustices. An analysis of the Plan's economic benefits. A $259 million annual benefit versus a one-time project cost of $115 million. Tours of our waterfront plan, including for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, Basil Seggos, and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) President and CEO Doreen Harris, universities, nonprofit organizations, agencies, and community leaders. A City of Water Day celebration with dozens of residents to discuss the community-driven Plan to create a waterfront park so that residents may breathe cleaner air have open green spaces to take children and be protected against floods. The Green Our City Now Coalition and the NYC Green Pact were developed to educate NY city legislatures on environmental issues and hold them accountable for their commitments.

  Expenses $11,000 · Grants $11,000

• CLT-to-EJ Initiative to put public land into the hands of residents for public environmental and social benefit: Development of an interactive map showing polluting facilities located along the Mott Haven-Port Morris peninsula, raising awareness of tens of thousands of residents about the cumulative impact of polluting facilities on public land in the neighborhood. Dozens of official commentary and support against the re-permitting of four dirty fossil fuel peaker power plants operated by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority's congestion pricing proposal (Central Business District Tolling Program), which would significantly increase traffic and noise pollution A study published in collaboration with Columbia Mailman School of Public Health that documented the worsening of South Bronx traffic congestion, raising health and safety concerns. We applied to the New York City Department of Transportation to expand our stewardship of the Maria Sola Greenspace to include a vacant adjacent lot. All services for this effort were completed with in-kind services from board memberss and supporters.

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part IV

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2023

Filed

23 February 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202400869349200800

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