FRIENDS PEACE TEAMS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q70

Classification

1200

Street

1001 PARK AVE

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Mission and programs · 2024

• African Great Lakes-Now more than ever, it is essential to celebrate and amplify the diverse voices that shape the region's identity and future. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in democratizing expression throughout the Great Lakes. Resilience and Reconciliation...Though historically marked by colonialism, conflict and displacement the Great Lakes has also witnessed powerful movements of reconciliation and renewal. Community leaders, artists, youth and faith-based organizations have worked tirelessly to mend divides and promote healing. Initiatives like Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and Children's Peace Libraries in Rwanda and Burundi empower individuals, especially youth to resolve conflicts peacefully and build a culture of nonviolence. In many parts of the region voices of women, young people, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups are often unheard. Yet sustainable peace and development require that these voices be acknowledged and elevated. Women and youth are driving transformative change. Through spoken word, civic engagement, digital storytelling and entrepreneurship they are challenging societal norms and fostering inclusion. We continue to implement programs promoting peace, justice and equitable education across the region. We raise awareness on human dignity, nonviolence and respect for diversity.

  Expenses $188,303 · Revenue -$16,069

• Europe and the Middle East-FPT works in extremely challenging areas of conflict and division to help alleviate oppression, prejudice and human suffering. Circles of support provide respite and hope for those experiencing trauma, while the sharing of practical tools for justice and peace helps to focus minds on nonviolence and change, enabling us to discern that Peace is Possible. In July 2025, Friends Peace Teams Europe and Middle East brought together 24 peacebuilders from Palestine, Chechnya, Iraq, Ukraine, Democratic Republic of Congo, the UK, the US and Ireland for a regional gathering and workshop on Cultures of Justice and Peace and Alternative to Violence Project special thematic series for peacebuilders and activists. Eight days of activities brought us together step by step as we progressed through the workshop's roadmap to justice and peace. Together we experienced personal and social transformation as we learned about ourselves and each other, finding common ground in four languages across eight cultures. With great Diversity of Voices, we listened to each other's experience of conflict, and we learned deeper empathy and understanding of nonviolence. The team support Ukrainian survivors by relieving psychological trauma among people in western Ukraine, many displaced by attacks in the east. They counsel groups and individuals and train professionals.

  Expenses $46,301 · Revenue -$7,852

• Peacebuilding in Las Americas PLA) works in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador and now Cuba. The communities where we work experience poverty, domestic violence, inequality, unemployment, exacerbated by returning deportees, police violence, oppression from government forces and entities, gang violence and destruction of ecosystems. In Guatemala we are working to transform communities by positively impacting families, adolescents and children. Our work is crucial in a country facing high rates of violence and inequality. We mini AVP workshops for low-income families. Participants learn to identify violence and improve their communication skills; many women find support for domestic violence a widespread problem in the country. We offer workshops to students ages 12-17 providing them with essential tools such as self-affirmation, respect for themselves and others, analytical thinking and nonviolent conflict resolution, instilling the concept of Transforming Power or as we say in Latin America, the Power that Transforms. Our Power of Goodness program is foundational for children. Through mini workshops children ages 4-11 discover their innate goodness and the importance of kindness. In El Salvador we base and carry out our work by serving various vulnerable groups affected by different forms of violence. Children, adolescents, youth, women, people with disabilities, older adults, survivors of the civil war, community leaders, church leaders from various faith traditions, and individuals in recovery from violence and addiction have all participated in our AVP and Power of Goodness workshops. Through these experiences, they have strengthened their lives, self-esteem, spirituality and self-awareness, while also discovering and developing their nonviolent capacities in the pursuit of peace within their communities. Honduras is a country in agony in the midst of violence. The AVP program offers people a chance to choose nonviolence. Step by step, with perseverance, AVP in Honduras is gaining recognition. Men and women who are incarcerated, teachers and students, children and adults in churches who have participated in the basic and advanced workshops, the trauma resilience workshop and the facilitator training, see AVP as a fruitful and more humane way of life. Cuba- In 2023, a collective dram began to take shape to revitalize AVP on the island. A small courageous group PAVistas (AVPers) along with the supportive solidarity of international facilitators, rekindled this flame of peace and transformation. Today, in 2025, they joyfully celebrate the fruits of so much shared effort. They have a strengthened team of around 10 new facilitators ready to sow VP in every corner of Cuba. Their energy and commitment are our greatest strength. In southwestern Colombia, there are many hotbeds of violence and more AVP facilitators are needed as we only have 3 who are currently active. For this reason, we are conducting workshops to create the process of training apprentice facilitators, who will add to our current team, allowing AVP to reach new places, hence the importance of their contributions to the mission of becoming peacemakers.

  Expenses $24,851 · Revenue -$21,937

• TRR: The goal of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples is to build relationships among Native & non-Native communities based on truth, respect, justice & our share humanity. The Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples program supports Indigenous Water Protectors who are literally standing in the way of oil & gas pipelines, dams & destructive mining. TRR raises awareness of the ongoing harms to Native people from 150 years of family separation as churches and the federal government forced Native children to attend boarding schools. They provide spaces for settler families to acknowledge how they have unjustly benefited from the theft of Native land and to consider paths toward justice. Power of Goodness expands the PoG story and children's artwork collection and offers PoG/AVP mini-workshops for religious education or community events. We are also learning together about the role 19th century Quakers played in the forced assimilation of Native children by operating Indian boarding schools. TRR coordinates the Quakers and Indian Boarding Schools' Research Network (QIBS) and collaborates with Native American organizations to provide information to Native families who ask, "What happened to our children?"

  Expenses $21,124 · Revenue -$1,920

• Asia West Pacific (AWP) We hum a refreshing tune of hope and courage as we face fear, uncertainty and brutality. We hear diverse rhythms, expressions and experiences of how justice and peace are possible. We desperately need voices of justice and nonviolent action to survive in the world of capitalism, climate crisis and militarization. The coordinator collaborates with community leaders and environmental advocates to promote climate justice and reduce use of single-use plastics. She mentors emerging community leaders with a heart for justice and peace and a love for the natural world in Bohol, Philippines and across Asia. All FPT-Philippine events and AVP workshops adhere to a low-waste standard. A team train youth on health, livelihood and leadership skills as they dodge airstrikes and frequently run from mortar fire. They organize mobile food and healthcare practice peace tools and develop agriculture to address hunger in their communities. The principal of Joglo Preschool in Indonesia base on AVP and Permaculture with 40 families and children 2.5 to 6 years old, 14 with special needs, using a Regenerative, Just, Peaceful Classroom Culture Curriculum in the first eight weeks of school.

  Expenses $20,054 · Revenue -$2,727

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $466,480

  Expenses

  $485,110

  Contributions

  $465,546

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $482,488

  Expenses

  $448,091

  Contributions

  $480,443

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $509,910

  Expenses

  $456,543

  Contributions

  $508,523

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $357,032

  Expenses

  $298,085

  Assets (EOY)

  $249,138

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $380,371

  Expenses

  $299,665

  Assets (EOY)

  $191,446

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $298,083

  Expenses

  $298,970

  Assets (EOY)

  $109,994

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $335,929

  Expenses

  $303,715

  Assets (EOY)

  $110,742

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $368,185

  Assets (EOY)

  $54,519

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $453,073

  Assets (EOY)

  $97,158

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $453,073

  Assets (EOY)

  $97,158

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $22,950

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $18,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $12,700

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• OBADIAH BROWNS BENEVOLENT FUND

  $11,715

  2022 · 1) Towards Right Relationship with Native People Workshops and 2) Sparklers English Literacy Program

• BOSTON FOUNDATION INC

  $10,000

  2023 · Operating Support/Annual Fund

• BOSTON FOUNDATION INC

  $9,645

  2022 · Operating Support/Annual Fund

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $8,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

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