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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by SPONSOR INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,124,922
Total expenses
$796,346
Contributions and grants received
$1,107,564
Grants paid
$15,816
Program service revenue
$15,575
Investment income
$112
Other revenue
$1,671
Total assets, end of year
$863,713
Total liabilities, end of year
$59,361
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$804,352
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$730,569
Management and general expenses
$43,422
Fundraising expenses
$22,355
Program service expenses (Part III)
$79,701,968

Program services were 91.7% 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

    $19,165

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $3,741

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $209,834

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $874,824

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Camp enrollment

    total $14,025 · related or exempt $14,025

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Consulting services

    total $1,550 · related or exempt $1,550

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $112 · related or exempt $112

  • 11a · Other revenue: misc. revenue

    total $1,671 · related or exempt $1,671

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,671

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $8,016 · program services $8,016

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $1,000 · program services $1,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $6,800 · program services $6,800

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $369,371 · program services $369,371

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $31,430 · program services $31,430

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $200 · program services $200

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $11,050 · management and general $11,050

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $8,518 · fundraising $8,518

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $78,159 · program services $78,159

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $27,987 · program services $27,987

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $17,982 · management and general $17,982

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $2,257 · management and general $2,257

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $3,521 · management and general $3,521

  • 17 · Travel

    total $3,240 · program services $3,240

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,865 · management and general $2,865

  • 24a · Other expenses: program service expenses

    total $109,917 · program services $109,917

  • 24b · Other expenses: Payroll administration services

    total $6,421 · program services $0 · management and general $6,421

  • 24c · Other expenses: fundraising costs incl transaction fees

    total $13,837 · fundraising $13,837

  • 24d · Other expenses: awards, stipends and honorariums

    total $79,431 · program services $79,431

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $14,344 · program services $15,018 · management and general -$674

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $453,519 · end of year $571,583

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $34,793 · end of year $105,609

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $4,421 · end of year $115,817

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $60,000

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $10,704

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $16,957 · end of year $59,361

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $475,776 · end of year $790,443

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $13,910

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of Mission.Earth (Sponsor, Inc.) is to empower, educate and encourage our partners so as to enable maximum impact on progressive social innovation. We provide a platform and collaborative community so that administration and regulation does not impede positive social action. Our vision is a world where innovative passion for socially positive action can be executed immediately and cost effectively.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Provide Fiscal sponsorship services, which provide charitable and other socially beneficial services to a variety of human services, arts, health, environmental, and other eleemosynary causes.

  • CORE Mental Health: We are a non-profit coalition bringing racial equity to mental health supports for people of color through innovative community collaborations.

    Expenses $15,315,429 · Revenue $15,168,113

  • The Farmers Land Trust (TFLT) exists to facilitate the preservation of farms and the transition of land ownership into community stewardship for a resilient and just future. Our organization is founded on a heritage of innovating the Farmland Commons model to serve local and regional farming communities. We exist to continue building on this heritage by developing the principles and practices needed to allow this mission to grow, evolve and live on to meet the needs and opportunities that this generational transition of land requires. The Farmers Land Trust exists in service to key members of the ecosystem the Land itself, transitioning Landowners, and Community-based Farmers.

    Expenses $11,420,270 · Revenue $18,539,314

  • The Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition advances equity and justice in the community by strengthening the Cambridge nonprofit sector, building collective voice, and promoting collaboration.

    Expenses $10,842,132 · Revenue $21,087,836

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Harry Meltzer

    Operations

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Stephen Meltzer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Kait Mackenzie

    Board of Directors Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Anna Arata

    Board of Directors Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
15 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202443199349318054

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