← FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC.

Totals

Total revenue: $6,840
Total expenses: $31,224
Contributions and grants received: $6,840
Grants paid: $10,750
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $0
Other revenue: $0
Total assets, end of year: $56,484
Total liabilities, end of year: $0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $56,484
Program services expenses (Part IX): $22,867
Management and general expenses: $3,081
Fundraising expenses: $5,276
Program service expenses (Part III): $22,867

Program services were 73.2% 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

$0
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$0
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$6,840
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
3 · Investment income

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6a · Gross rents

real property $0 · personal property $0
6b · Less rental expenses

real property $0 · personal property $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
6d · Net rental income or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $0 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $0 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: gross income

$0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

$0
8c · Net income from fundraising events

total $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
9a · Gaming: gross income

$0
9b · Gaming: direct expenses

$0
9c · Net income from gaming

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$0
10b · Cost of goods sold

$0
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

total $10,000 · program services $10,000
2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $750 · program services $750
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

total $0 · program services $0
4 · Benefits paid to or for members

total $0 · program services $0
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $8,531 · program services $2,843 · management and general $2,844 · fundraising $2,844
10 · Payroll taxes

total $712 · program services $237 · management and general $237 · fundraising $238
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

total $1,250 · fundraising $1,250
11g · Fees: other

total $944 · fundraising $944
13 · Office expenses

total $1,280 · program services $1,280
14 · Information technology

total $749 · program services $749
17 · Travel

total $1,726 · program services $1,726
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $4,245 · program services $4,245
23 · Insurance

total $700 · program services $700
24a · Other expenses: Governmental Filing Fees

total $337 · program services $337 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $80,188 · end of year $56,484
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
7 · Other notes and loans receivable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
8 · Inventories for sale or use

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
13 · Investments: program-related

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
15 · Other assets

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
18 · Grants payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund

beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

beginning of year $80,188 · end of year $56,484

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To own, lease, rent, manage, sell real property (through acquisition, rehabilitation, new construction, or otherwise) in order to make housing available at the lowest possible cost to low-income persons and families in Franklin County, Massachusetts.

As a learning organization, FCCLT has given significant time to developing a regional collaborative of similar CLTs and other reinforcing affordable housing groups within the 3 county area - VALE. Valley Alliance for Land Equity (VALE) serves as a information and resource sharing group that seeks to increase the effectiveness of each of our missions through mutual support. FCCLT operates as the fiscal sponsor for VALE while this group-of-groups establishes internal protocols and continues to build external support. VALE's mission is to scale up the availability of permanently affordable, democratically-governed, shared-equity opportunities for land and housing in Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties. We seek to meaningfully reduce the racialized wealth divide in Western Massachusetts and better meet individual and community needs. This collaborative is allowing FCCLT and other area CLTs to draw on the decades of expertise of the various member groups, build relationships with mission friendly developers and real estate designers, create channels for combined statewide housing initiatives, develop shared paperwork and administrative functions to reduce burden on isolated rural communities seeking to form local area CLTs, advertise the benefits of community owned property to our neighbors to make it part of the regular conversation of housing, and to find ways to be an entity that can say YES to donations of property with structures - which currently does not exist in the River Valley.

Expenses $19,187 · Grants $10,000 · Revenue $3,400
FCCLT operations - regular internal maintenance, but also the first real estate project for our organization. Since June 2024 residents of Montague MA (town in Franklin County) have approached FCCLT along with Mount Grace Conservation Land Trust with the goal of acquiring beloved property in Montague with the potential purpose of aligning affordable housing with the project. FCCLT funds expended represent due diligence and legal fees toward this purpose.

Expenses $564 · Revenue $690
The FCCLT board, in the course of developing our nascent organization, discovered that finding, maintaining, tracking and motivating volunteers to this difficult work is often times a key stumbling block toward mission fulfilment. A local group of activists in Greenfield MA (a city in Franklin County) decided to establish - Resilient Greenfield. The mission of Resilient Greenfield is to support existing organizations to foster collaboration and coordination, and possibly create new projects to meet the emerging needs of Greenfield and surrounding towns. This is done through the creation of a volunteer clearinghouse - setting up a digital platform for local non-profits and others to post their volunteer opportunities while being a platform for individuals and business to connect to see how best to fill those volunteer opportunities. FCCLT found this mission compelling and helpful for our needs. When Resilient Greenfield reached the stage of needing to purchase software and accept donations, FCCLT was approached and approved to operate as fiscal sponsor.

Expenses $3,116 · Revenue $2,750

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

Judith Atkins

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Martin Omasta

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
David Cohen

Clerk

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

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

Wellspring Cooperative Corporation

$10,000

To enable VCLT board participation & formation decisions to be engaged with and attended by individuals who do not have the capacity to solely donate their time freely. A stipend program was established with these monies to ensure all members of the community are able to have their wisdom included in the development of a local community land trust.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2025
Filed: 2 June 2026
IRS schema version: 2025v4.0
Source object: 202601289349303435

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