Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $990,829
- Total expenses
- $1,569,138
- Contributions and grants received
- $607,146
- Grants paid
- $212,580
- Program service revenue
- $348,476
- Investment income
- $35,207
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $974,988
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $345,546
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $629,442
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,512,954
- Management and general expenses
- $46,009
- Fundraising expenses
- $10,175
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,512,954
Program services were 96.4% 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.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
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1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$0
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$607,146
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$0
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2a · Program service revenue: Solar Subscriber Management System
total $274,161 · related or exempt $274,161 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Celebrations of local culture
total $74,315 · related or exempt $74,315 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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3 · Investment income
total $35,207 · related or exempt $35,207 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$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 $38,365 · program services $38,365
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $174,215 · program services $174,215
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $338,053 · program services $338,053 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $15,605 · management and general $15,605
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11a · Fees: management
total $577,828 · program services $577,828
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $22,099 · program services $22,099
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $10,175 · fundraising $10,175
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11g · Fees: other
total $27,255 · program services $27,255
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $21,386 · program services $21,386
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13 · Office expenses
total $1,485 · management and general $1,485
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14 · Information technology
total $43,456 · program services $43,456
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16 · Occupancy
total $15,000 · program services $15,000
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17 · Travel
total $84,043 · program services $84,043
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $160,253 · program services $160,253
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23 · Insurance
total $24,067 · management and general $24,067
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24a · Other expenses: bank fees
total $9,063 · program services $9,063 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: government fees
total $3,237 · program services $0 · management and general $3,237 · fundraising $0
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24c · Other expenses: change in risk assessment of investments
total $1,938 · program services $1,938 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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24d · Other expenses: All other expenses
total $1,615 · program services $0 · management and general $1,615 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $2,310,743 · end of year $635,316
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $68,310
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $233,757 · end of year $208,462
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$62,900
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0 · end of year $62,900
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $28,000
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $10,140 · end of year $10,521
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $1,331,368 · end of year $327,305
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $21,908 · end of year $7,720
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $1,333 · end of year $0
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $394,645 · end of year $235,255
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $813,106 · end of year $394,187
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Common Good shifts power from big business and distant government back to communities, where we see what's needed and care enough to support each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and guaranteed work. In a Common Good Economy, we gather locally to decide for ourselves our funding priorities -- with plenty of money to fund those decisions. Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Common Good builds tools for a new community-centered democratic economy that supports each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat and a place to live, so that everyone is free to contribute to society in a way that brings them joy.
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The Truth Telling Project: to support and implement grassroots, community-centered truth-telling and reparations processes to achieve Black liberation and BIPOC solidarity, amplify traditionally silenced and disenfranchised voices, and abolish white supremacy.
Expenses $745,674 · Grants $82,750 · Revenue $170,254
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Common Good Democratic Economics System: We design, promote, and support software, strategies, and contracts for a community-centered democratic economy.
Expenses $163,175 · Grants $12,190 · Revenue -$22,103
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Solar Subscriber Management System: We design and maintain software for managing subscriptions to cooperatively-owned community solar electric arrays, as a way to leverage more participation in our Common Good Democratic Economics System (see above)
Expenses $137,150 · Revenue $274,161
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Mutual Aid Medford And Somerville: Taking collective responsibility for getting everyone through times of crisis.
Expenses $116,268 · Grants $112,170 · Revenue $179,194
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Nonprofit Accountability Group:promoting racial equity, education, and environmental justice through the arts.
Expenses $105,550 · Revenue $124,730
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North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival: A celebration of the artistic, agricultural and cultural bounty of the North Quabbin region.
Expenses $54,783 · Grants $5,353 · Revenue $74,315
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Kibilio Community and Farm: an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice, working cooperatively toward educating for indigenous land justice and ecological balance.
Expenses $92,099 · Revenue $16,470
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Ile Orunmila Oshun: Empowering people through spiritual activism to access earth-based wisdom, spiritual guidance, herbally based remedies, and somatic practices, the tools needed to pursue their "freedom dreams".
Expenses $47,000 · Revenue $21,759
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Ubuntu Freedom: Building self-governance and freedom by creating a global society based on an understanding of our connection to each other, the earth, and the whole of nature.
Expenses $23,750 · Revenue $10,000
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North End Little Pantries: Combatting food insecurity in North Hartford, CT.
Expenses $9,635 · Grants $45 · Revenue $10,104
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reparationWorks: Creating a thriving, lush Philadelphia through the sacred power of reparations.
Expenses $8,373 · Grants $33 · Revenue $8,911
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Reentry Community Charitable farm: Supporting all who wish to return to the land to find freedom through agriculture and communal land stewardship.
Expenses $2,375 · Revenue $2,500
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Shelburne Falls Community Orchard: An edible landscape of fruit trees, berries, herbs and pollinator plants and a food resource for local neighbors w/food insecurity, providing a welcoming space for climate education, art, music, and connecting to nature.
Expenses $2,121
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Montague Neighbors: Helping adults over sixty residing in the town of Montague to age in place with dignity and independence by offering volunteer services, access to information and community connections.
Expenses $2,004 · Grants $4 · Revenue $1,498
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Haven's Harvest: offering timely and reliable surplus food pick-up and delivery in the New Haven, Connecticut area, connecting businesses with community sites through the transfer of high quality excess food. Recovered food is a community resource. Don't let good food go to waste!
Expenses $1,900 · Revenue $2,000
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ZEAL Co-Op: Cultivating emergent creative community development strategies to cooperatively own and steward the means of our cultural production.
Expenses $1,000 · Revenue $28,500
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Food Fund: supporting members in helping others who are food insecure.
Expenses $62 · Revenue $1,430
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Susie King Taylor Square Foundation: Harnessing strength in numbers to influence public opinion in a positive way for all its citizens on the Georgia coast.
Expenses $25 · Grants $25
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On Native Land: Promoting awareness of our colonial settler history and its impact on Indigenous peoples of Leverett, MA.
Expenses $10 · Grants $10
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Albita's Gift Fund: Providing a means for communities to support local businesses.
Revenue $2,790
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Homegrown Maroons: Providing respite and reconnection to nature, to deepen a shared understanding of our relationship to and vision for freedom.
Revenue $10,001
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Anthony Campbell
Software Engineer
- Total calculated
- $137,150
- From this org
- $137,150
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
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Tenaya Taylor
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Nkemdilim Nwodo
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Cynthia Jacelon
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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William Spademan
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 60
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
- 2024
- Filed
- 13 May 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202601359349301215
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