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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,245,968
Total expenses
$6,368,488
Contributions and grants received
$2,237,960
Grants paid
$50,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$8,008
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$10,800,970
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,271,215
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$7,529,755
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,356,127
Management and general expenses
$1,356,406
Fundraising expenses
$655,955
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,356,127

Program services were 68.4% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,237,960

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $8,008 · excluded $8,008

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $50,000 · program services $50,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $432,219 · program services $220,616 · management and general $204,719 · fundraising $6,884

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,211,391 · program services $1,629,739 · management and general $215,994 · fundraising $365,658

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $63,344 · program services $44,413 · management and general $9,935 · fundraising $8,996

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $156,054 · program services $112,516 · management and general $18,356 · fundraising $25,182

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $321,876 · program services $225,671 · management and general $50,479 · fundraising $45,726

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $73,051 · management and general $73,051

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $2,058,888 · program services $1,397,746 · management and general $613,638 · fundraising $47,504

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $63,491 · program services $28,285 · management and general $18,371 · fundraising $16,835

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $82,296 · program services $56,767 · management and general $13,321 · fundraising $12,208

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $532,647 · program services $367,413 · management and general $86,220 · fundraising $79,014

  • 17 · Travel

    total $230,020 · program services $160,039 · management and general $35,564 · fundraising $34,417

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,992 · management and general $1,992

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $24,073 · program services $16,605 · management and general $3,897 · fundraising $3,571

  • 24a · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSE

    total $67,146 · program services $46,317 · management and general $10,869 · fundraising $9,960

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $5,479,911 · end of year $3,876,199

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,908,429 · end of year $3,941,522

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,250,000 · end of year $719,491

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $403,963

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $17,819

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $2,245,939

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $390,028 · end of year $903,785

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    end of year $2,367,430

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $7,435,945 · end of year $6,528,515

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,216,330 · end of year $1,001,240

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

VISION: WE ENVISION A NATIONAL CULTURE OF OPPORTUNITY, COMMUNITY, AND EQUITY, WHICH ENSURES JUST AND RESPONSIBLE POLICIES FOR ALL PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY REGARDLESS OF RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, ABILITY, RELIGION, OR ECONOMIC STATUS. MISSION: OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION AND CULTURAL WILL TO CHALLENGE WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS PERVASIVE IMPACT, WORK IN COMMUNITY TO OVERCOME OPPOSITION NARRATIVES THAT EXCLUDE AND DIVIDE US, AND ADVANCE NARRATIVES THAT SUPPORT OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL. VALUES: VALUES PROVIDE THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL OUR NARRATIVE AND MESSAGING DEVELOPMENT RECOMMENDATIONS. AND THEY MUST GUIDE THE WAYS IN WHICH WE WORK TOGETHER INTERNALLY, AS WELL AS THE WAYS IN WHICH WE WORK WITH PARTNERS, COMMUNICATE, CREATE OUR RESEARCH AND MATERIALS, AND MAKE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. WE STRIVE TO CREATE A SAFE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY THAT EMBRACES MULTIPLE EXPRESSIONS OF IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE, AND VIEWS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA IS A COMMUNITY DEDICATED TO BUILDING NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL POWER TO MOVE OUR NATION TOWARD A VISION OF JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.

  • SUPPORTED THE SOCIAL JUSTICE FIELD TO USE COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, AND CULTURE TO TELL STORIES THAT CHANGE HOW WE TALK AND THINK ABOUT ISSUES INCLUDING IMMIGRATION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY; TRAINED 246 SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS IN NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL STRATEGIES TO AMPLIFY THEIR VOICES AND EFFECTIVENESS AS STORYTELLERS; SUPPORTED CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC PROJECTS TO ADVANCE NEW NARRATIVES OF SHARED PROSPERITY OF FIVE CULTURE & NARRATIVE FELLOWS THROUGH SIX MONTHS OF STRATEGIC SUPPORT AND A $15,000 STIPEND; HELD OUR 10TH CREATIVE CHANGE BRINGING TOGETHER LEADING ARTISTS, ENTERTAINERS, ADVOCATES, FUNDERS, AND CULTURAL STRATEGISTS TO CREATE ART AND CULTURAL STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE; AND PROVIDED MESSAGING TOOLS WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESPONDING TO BREAKING NEWS IN A WAY THAT MOVES US TOWARDS NEW SOLUTIONS FOR OUR 30,000+ NETWORK OF ADVOCATES, FUNDERS, POLICYMAKERS, AND OTHER SPOKESPEOPLE.

    Expenses $4,356,127 · Grants $50,000

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Aduke Thelwell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan Myers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy Redford

    TRUSTEE (OUTGOING)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Gorin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kat O'Brien

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martiza Guzman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Goldberg

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Richard Roberts

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sara Stuart

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vincent Benjamin

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Vladimir Estiverne

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yasmin Cader

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ellen Buchman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $229,367
    From this org
    $211,147
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,220
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $211,147
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,220
    Filer's total
    $229,367

  • Erika Williams

    COO

    Total calculated
    $202,849
    From this org
    $196,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,839
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $196,010
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,839
    Filer's total
    $202,849

  • Adam Luna

    VP FOR PROGRAM STRATEGY &

    Total calculated
    $199,343
    From this org
    $183,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,857
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $183,486
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,328
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,529
    Filer's total
    $199,343

  • Elizabeth Theobald Richards

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR (OUTGOING)

    Total calculated
    $132,868
    From this org
    $127,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,445
    Hours/week
    40

  • Leslie Weber

    VP FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVAN

    Total calculated
    $208,267
    From this org
    $184,952
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,315
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,952
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,160
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,155
    Filer's total
    $208,267

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
THE CEO AND TOP MANAGEMENT SALARIES ARE ESTABLISHED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IN CONSIDERATION OF THE INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
13 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202333199349322583

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