Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $503,478
- Total expenses
- $369,358
- Contributions and grants received
- $503,478
- Grants paid
- $5,000
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,634,940
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $497
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,634,443
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $341,686
- Management and general expenses
- $27,672
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $341,686
Program services were 92.5% 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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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$503,478
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $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 $5,000 · program services $5,000
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $196,806 · program services $180,306 · management and general $16,500
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $27,200 · program services $23,993 · management and general $3,207
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $5,175 · management and general $5,175
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $101,636 · program services $101,636
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $591 · management and general $591
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14 · Information technology
total $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0
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17 · Travel
total $30,387 · program services $30,387
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $0
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24a · Other expenses: WEB SITE
total $2,151 · management and general $2,151
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24b · Other expenses: Misc Expense
total $186 · program services $186
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24c · Other expenses: BANK FEE
total $170 · program services $170
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24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $48 · management and general $48
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24e · All other expenses
total $8 · program services $8
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $257,107 · end of year $346,006
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $744,718 · end of year $766,475
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $498,888 · end of year $522,459
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $390 · end of year $497
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,500,323 · end of year $1,634,443
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, (THE ORGANIZATION) IS COMMITTED TO FACILITATING A GLOBAL CONVERSATION ABOUT DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS. TO ATTAIN ITS GOALS, THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO EDUCATE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND GOVERNMENTAL OFFICIALS ABOUT THE FAILURE OF EXISTING GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS TO RECOGNIZE AND ENFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, AND PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO THEM TO FASHION NEW LAWS AND NEW LEGAL SYSTEMS, WHICH CREATE AND ENFORCE ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS. THE ORGANIZATION THEN ASSISTS THEM TO ENFORCE AND DEFEND THOSE LAWS.
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I. During Program Year 2023, CDER provided assistance to organizations, governments, tribal members, and tribal governments in Oklahoma, California, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Minnesota, and other states, to educate those governments, individuals, and groups about a new system of environmental law focused on recognizing the legally enforceable rights of ecosystems and nature. CDER also presented at conferences and gatherings across the United States to speak about the movement towards the legal recognition of the rights of nature. II. During Program Year 2023, CDER provided educational trainings and strategic organizational assistance to organizations in Ireland, Ecuador, Australia, Nepal, England, Northern Ireland, Brazil, Costa Rica, and other countries. Assistance and support to those organizations included educational webinars and strategic assistance for the drafting of laws which would recognize the legally enforceable rights of nature and ecosystems.III. During Program Year 2023, CDER provided educational trainings and support for tribal communities across the United States, including tribes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Virginia, New York, and Oklahoma, and participated in various webinars and other trainings with indigenous leaders from those tribes. IV. During Program Year 2023, CDER partnered with several organizations to create an organization focused on creating new land ownership options which would recognize nature and ecosystems as rights-bearing entities.V. During Program Year 2023, CDER partnered with a national organization to create a new software application that can be used by municipal and tribal organizers to identify the most appropriate places to adopt laws recognizing the legally enforceable rights of nature and ecosystems.
Expenses $341,686 · Grants $5,000
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Thomas Linzey
President
- Total calculated
- $91,346
- From this org
- $91,346
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 55
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Mari Margil
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $91,346
- From this org
- $91,346
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 55
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
- 4 November 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202423099349303257
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