WHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1200

Street

1253 WHITNEY AVE

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Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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• BLACK INFINITY COLLECTIVE INC

  EIN 87-1672962

• COMMUNITY MEDIATION INC

  EIN 06-1039800

• ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH INC

  EIN 06-1487710

• INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CARE GIVERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC

  EIN 48-1306407

Mission and programs · 2024

• As part of our historic preservation program, we own, maintain, and preserve 1247-1253 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT, 06517, a National Historic Landmark, which includes the Whitneyville United Church of Christ built in 1834 and its Church House built in 1924, and continue its legacy as a house of worship while continuing to adapt its use to a broader Community Resources Center and the facility in which we run some of our other programs. We completed an electrical upgrade and HVAC installation to 1247 Whitney Avenue, the historic church building, allowing us to operate a contemporary HVAC system to maintain heating, cooling, and moisture in the building in a more effective manner, thus allowing us to preserve it more easily, and adapt it to contemporary expectations. We have been assisting the First Church of Christ Woodbridge with the adaptation of its facilities for broader community use, while preserving the historic features of the buildings and property, helping them to develop plans for the inclusion of a day care within their facilities in a way which abides by the historic preservation requirements of their Preservation Easement and their Historic District requirements.

  Expenses $117,351 · Grants $988 · Revenue $9,098

• Our Materials and Information Library program allows us to offer a curated repository of items and information for managed public use, both onsite and offsite. It includes books, tables, chairs, multi-media equipment, office supplies, kitchen tools, lawn care tools, and more. It also includes our databases of information about the historic property, Whitneyville, and Greater New Haven, allowing us to slowly build a representation of our community that can let us help people find services and resources that they need that we don't provide. We also document our successes and failures as a social enterprise nonprofit transforming communal, historic space from just its traditional uses to alternative, expanded, and inclusive uses that conserve and preserve the traditional uses and spirit of those uses, while also including new styles of use -- the documenting of this material has allowed us to grow partnerships with organizations around Connecticut where we help them adapt our successes to their own situations, avoid our failures in those situations, and assist them with implementing the adapted plans so their institutions and facilities can serve flourishing community. This year we provided information curation services around nonprofit formation and development to The People's Place of Waterbury, a nonprofit community resources center. Helping them find their first physical location for establishing the physical plant of their community resources center, and helped them launch programs like ours, as well as adapting them to serve their community in novel ways. We are also developing a shared library of documentation of this process, so that both organizations can continue to share with others the successes and failures of the social enterprises. We also provided information curation services around historic property adaptation to First Church of Christ Woodbridge, the sister church of our property, constructed by the same builders from the same plans in 1832. We assisted them with the adaptation of the historic day care operating in their Parish House, developing plans and strategies for expanding it from 32 to 96 children, and finding a daycare partner to help them operate it, such that their historic property can become accessible and sustainable into the future.

  Expenses $57,038 · Grants $584 · Revenue $94,089

• Our assembly space program continued to allow use of the historic properties in our trust for broad use for community events, nonprofits, and social gatherings. The Red Cross of America ran Mobile Blood Drives, weekly and without fail, at our facilities throughout the year -- we serve as the New Haven Chapter House of the Red Cross. Social gathering incrementally grew from the previous year, but continued to be our most requested program service proving the vital necessity of social infrastructure for our community through high demand. We hosted roughly two thousand community, nonprofit, and social gatherings during 2024.

  Expenses $54,171 · Grants $613 · Revenue $140,160

• Our Coworking Program provides a dynamic shared and private working environment that brings together startups, seasoned professionals, remote researches, freelancers, and solopreneurs, in a public space where they interact more regularly with each other and their community with lower overhead to insure viability of their small businesses, and to give new entrepreneurs a chance to make it in and a reason to stay in our local economy. Our Partner Coworking Organizations: CEIO, Public Allies CT, Black Infinity Collective, Prison2Public Policy, Students for Educational Justice, Real Clear Foundation, Stop Solitary, Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers, and our solo-preneurs, did coworking actiivities in our facilities utilizing both communal spaces and private offices. We also hosted many daytime seminars and presentations from organizations needing short term large spaces to supplement their small offices or work from home teams.

  Expenses $28,490 · Grants $317 · Revenue $69,113

• Our Arts and Culture Program provides studio space for artists, venues for performances and showcases and cultural events, space for arts classes and rehearsals, and tools for artistic productions, produced both in partnership with artists and offering our services as tools for artists to produce their own events. It also provides home for culturally significant programming from sub-cultures across Connecticut, including Christian worship & artistic services across denominations, including Pentecostals, UCCs, Episcopalians, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and more, and other significant worship and cultural services from across faith and traditional backgrounds. This year, both our churches and arts programming exceeded pre-pandemic levels proving the vital necessity of social infrastructure for arts & culture in GNH.

  Expenses $18,126 · Grants $210 · Revenue $51,303

• We produce, on our own and in partnership with members of the community and other organizations, a small number of classes and workshops designed to offering education to the community at large, in any topic or area of interest that serves the benefit of our community members. And we added on incubation and acceleration services for nonprofit development, utilizing our vast experience with many kinds of organizations through coworking, our partnerships with other organizations, and by collecting and synthesizing our own lessons learned as a startup nonprofit social enterprise, to help other individuals and organizations starting and operating nonprofit projects to benefit from the lessons of our coworkers -- we've been doing this in partnership with The People's Place in Waterbury to provide these services directly to their fiscal sponsees at TPP. Additionally, one of our sponsored projects, The Winnett Food Forest, became a free standing 501c3 organization and we regranted its remaining assets on our books to it.

  Expenses $18,783 · Grants $162 · Revenue $4,746

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

  $411,421

  Expenses

  $294,010

  Contributions

  $42,913

  Grants paid

  $5,067

• 2023

  Revenue

  $378,321

  Expenses

  $617,822

  Contributions

  $37,769

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $297,627

  Expenses

  $314,363

  Contributions

  $16,360

  Grants paid

  $4,833

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

  $569,248

  Expenses

  $272,548

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,492,247

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $191,187

  Expenses

  $145,483

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,196,959

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $260,024

  Expenses

  $187,560

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,053,496

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $170,917

  Expenses

  $176,460

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,013,436

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $155,287

  Expenses

  $158,594

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,051,186

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $108,680

  Expenses

  $104,007

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,673

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

• Winnett Food Forest

  $5,067

  2024 · Remaining balance of the Claire C. Bennitt Watershed Fund Grant received and disbursed on behalf of Winnett Food Farm prior to their incorporation and determination as a 501c3. Claire C. Bennitt Watershed Fund Grant was for providing education in the appreciation of and preservation of our environment, with particular emphasis on the understanding of our water resources, the negative impacts of development and other activities on water quality, and the benefits to water quality and the environment of preserving watershed land as open space.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

  $32,429

  2023 · UPKEEP OF THE WHITNEYVILLE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $20,000

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $11,500

  2022 · CT CULTURAL FUND OPE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $10,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

  $7,867

  2024 · FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE WHITNEYVILLE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NOW KNOWN AS WHITNEYVILLE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

  $7,780

  2023 · FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE WHITNEYVILLE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NOW KNOWN AS WHITNEYVILLE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST.

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