Attach to Form 990 or Form 990-EZ.
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| (i)Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 9 above or IRC section (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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| Yes | No | |||||
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") .... | 5,007,967 | 7,535,549 | 7,167,089 | 11,648,469 | 10,459,122 | 41,818,196 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf....... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 5,007,967 | 7,535,549 | 7,167,089 | 11,648,469 | 10,459,122 | 41,818,196 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 6,620,756 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 35,197,440 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 5,007,967 | 7,535,549 | 7,167,089 | 11,648,469 | 10,459,122 | 41,818,196 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 233,905 | 243,308 | 207,139 | 247,583 | 220,047 | 1,151,982 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | ||||||
| 11 | Total support Add lines 7 through 10. | 43,207,066 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose...... | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513.. | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5. | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons... | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2010 | (b) 2011 | (c) 2012 | (d) 2013 | (e) 2014 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e | Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): | |||||
| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Check here if the current year is the organization's first as a non-functionally-integrated Type III supporting organization (see instructions) | |||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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8
Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2014 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2014 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2014 |
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Distributable amount for 2014 from Section C, line 6 |
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2014 (reasonable cause required--see instructions) |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2014: | ||||
| a From 2009.......X | ||||
| b From 2010.......X | ||||
| c From 2011.......X | ||||
| d From 2012.......X | ||||
| e From 2013....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2014 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2009 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2014 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
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| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2014 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2014, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2 (if amount greater than zero, see instructions) |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2014. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1 (if amount greater than zero, see instructions) |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2015. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a From 2010.......X | ||||
| b From 2011.......X | ||||
| c From 2012.......X | ||||
| d From 2013....... | ||||
| e From 2014....... | ||||
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| Form 990, Part I, Line 1 | UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: | Rights at Risk In FY15, UUSC launched the newly envisioned Rights at Risk program with a mandate to respond creatively and strategically to emerging humanitarian disasters around the world, to address entrenched and systemic rights abuses, and to work in situations of armed conflict, genocide, and forced migration where human rights are most in danger - seeking in all cases to assist those populations most at risk of being excluded from other humanitarian responses. The Rights at Risk program has sought to enhance UUSC's cooperation with some of its long-standing partners while also incorporating new focus areas and commitments to respond to urgent crises as they unfold. Rights at Risk undertook two new major natural disaster relief efforts this year in Asia and the Pacific. This past March, UUSC developed a new partnership in Vanuatu to respond to the devastating effects of Cyclone Pam that affected 90% of the population. UUSC partnered with the Vanuatu Society for People with a Disability (VSPD), which has provided assessment and services to 400 people with disabilities and remained a powerful voice for disabled citizens to help ensure their equitable access to relief materials. In Nepal, UUSC supported community-led relief efforts after two massive earthquakes devastated the country in April and May. UUSC responded quickly, forging new partnerships with a women's community fund, TEWA, which mobilized volunteers to assist affected communities and reached 15 districts, 112 communities and 23,271 households through its earthquake relief efforts. UUSC also partnered with a local teacher's association, Chetana, which enabled over 2,300 students to return to school after the disaster by setting up temporary classrooms in districts with large populations of historically marginalized minorities. UUSC's Rights at Risk program has developed a new strategic plan for Burma which includes continued support for democracy, free elections, ethnic and religious minority rights, and women's empowerment in this country faced with government and corporate cronyism and land grabbing. UUSC provided emergency assistance in May to our partner assisting Rohingya refugees arriving by boat in Thailand. In Burundi, UUSC supported a local foundation and community shelter that provided support to women and children during the violence that erupted before the June elections. At the United States' borders, UUSC became a leading voice this past year among the advocacy groups working to end family detention, sponsoring in the process congressional briefings, lobbying efforts, and constituent advocacy to end this harmful practice. Working in tandem with UUSC's Justice Building initiative and the UU College of Social Justice, we organized 17 volunteers who spent up to 1,880 hours assisting asylum-seeking families with our partner in South Texas, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). UUSC also mobilized over 5,433 constituents in February of 2015 to take a stand to end family detention and another 2,243 in June with a follow-up petition aimed at the Obama administration and Department of Homeland Security. UUSC and coalition members recently celebrated a district court decision denouncing family detention and providing strict orders for ceasing the prolonged detention of children and their mothers. UUSC's Haitian grassroots partners had an impactful year working in the areas of nutritional security, building trauma resiliency, protecting the rights of women & children, improving food security, supporting economic empowerment and enabling human rights awareness. Our partner, GEAD (Bright Educators of Delmas), trained 600 families on urban agriculture at their newly established center in Haiti's capital, Port au Prince. In 4 poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Port Au Prince, 120 youth developed professional proficiency in vocational skills and gained competency in social, health and human rights through a capacity building program conducted by an anti-slavery organization, Zanmi Timoun. Mouvman Peyizan Papay, which works primarily in agricultural production and environmental protection, trained 60 families (350+ individuals) who fled from Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake. The project increased their skills in agricultural production using agro-ecology methods to produce clean food in sufficient quantities to feed their families and sell the surplus in the local markets to provide income. In FY'15, UUSC funded partners in the Philippines to support over 4,000 families, primarily through community resiliency education, the creation of disaster resilient livelihoods, gender-based violence prevention, participatory research, and advocacy. Over 3,000 women gained self-reliance, leadership and resiliency skills through participation in UUSC funded programs led by 7 Filipino grassroots organizations focusing on livelihood & trauma recovery. In addition, medical organization, Magna Children at Risk, provided 136 government service providers and 115 parent leaders training on Community Resiliency Model skills. A total of 1,924 community members in 23 villages in Kananga, Leyte benefited from this cutting-edge trauma resiliency training. The Consortium for People's Development-Disaster Response (CPD-DR), a multi-stakeholder consortium of development organizations, also trained 600 families in 5 indigenous communities on disaster preparedness and sustainable agriculture in Central Panay. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: | Environmental Justice UUSC advances the human right to water by working with grassroots groups, research institutions, and various levels of government to advocate for new law and policy, challenge violations, and create new models for implementation. UUSC collaborates with innovative groups who are protecting water resources and increasing access to services for low-income and vulnerable populations, such as women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and ethnic and religious minorities, and low-income consumers. UUSC works to change policy frameworks by first targeting challenges that will result in immediate change in the lives of residents. In FY 2015, UUSC provided $300,500 in financial and technical support to human rights and social justice organizations working on the human right to water in Africa, the Americas, and the United States. With UUSC support, these organizations have documented inequality in service to low income neighborhoods, brought successful lawsuits to stop mass water shut offs, campaigned for infrastructure projects benefitting consumers, and stopped negative laws from being enacted. The research, campaigns, and legal advocacy of UUSC partners contributed to the following advancements: - Detroit adopted financial assistance programs restoring 19,155 households to service. In addition, 1,800 households have received direct financial assistance from a $2 million fund. Detroit Water and Sewer stopped residential shut offs and empaneled a group of experts to develop an affordability plan for the city's lowest income residents; - Boston announced a 30% discount on water rates for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities in the Boston Water and Sewer Commission service area, impacting the lives of 14,036 people; - The Supreme Court of Mexico established a new national human right to water guideline for the water and sanitation sector requiring utilities and the government to ensure sufficient water for daily human needs. A legislative campaign stopped the new national water law from being enacted that would undercut the decision; - The Guatemalan government broke ground on the first of 14 water infrastructure projects to serve Sipakapense indigenous communities impacted by the Marlin gold mine; - Mapasinge Este community in Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrated an inaugural sanitation infrastructure to serve its 20,000 residents after successful campaigns; - The UN Human Rights Council recommended that the United States investigate the discrimination and inequality in the domestic water and sanitation sector. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: | Economic Justice UUSC advances economic justice through partnerships with grassroots organizations, organizing, and advocacy in the United States and abroad. Working to promote worker safety and rights in the food chain in the United States, UUSC has collaborated with partners to engage youth on worker rights issues, organize food chain workers, and develop worker leadership capabilities. Internationally, UUSC has partnered with grassroots organizations to promote and protect the rights of workers in the informal sector. During fiscal year 2015, UUSC's Economic Justice Program supported work in the United States and Kenya. In Northwest Arkansas, UUSC provided key funding for the provision of direct case management services to 300 workers. Support was also given to organizing efforts, trainings, and personal development workshops that directly impacted 12,000 workers and indirectly benefitted 125,000 workers. UUSC also supported the creation of a comic book designed to educate youth and adults about food chain workers, which has sold 563 print editions and connected with 1,432 individuals through promotional events and online purchases. Towards the end of the fiscal year, UUSC began supporting a series of trainings that will each train 36 workers in the skills necessary to advocate for the Good Food Purchasing Policy (GFPP), which provides 750,000 meals per day in Los Angeles. The GFPP primarily benefits low-income students and senior citizens. It is anticipated that the training will lead to the establishment of three-to-five campaigns across the United States promoting GFPP. UUSC has also supported workforce training for 500 restaurant workers, the expansion of a network of 'high road' restaurant employers to a total of 200, and the opening of 3 new training facilities for restaurant workers around the United States. In Kenya, our funding supported catering and business training for 52 youths, as well as, training for 20 women. Overall this project has directly benefitted over 3,000 people, primarily women and youth. In addition, UUSC's support to workers in the informal economy directly benefitted 5,000 people and indirectly benefitted 15,000 more people through leadership development, capacity building, and awareness raising efforts about the rights of persons with disabilities. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2015, UUSC began supporting efforts to extend access to a revolving loan fund for informal workers in Kenya that will directly benefit 9 communities. |
| form 990, Part iv, line 28c: | UUSC's investments are managed by a firm associated with a trustee. Fees for such services were $40,507 for the year ended June 30, 2015. The Board believes this transaction is favorable to UUSC, and such arrangement has been reviewed and approved by the remaining trustees. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 | The draft of the Form 990 is discussed and reviewed with the audit committee of the board of trustees for their comments, input and approval. All the members of the governing body receive either a hard copy or an electronic copy of the Form 990 before it is filed. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | UUSC regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with the conflict of interest policy which covers all staff and the board of trustees. In doing so, all decisions (financial or non-financial) are scrutinized to ensure that they are not self-serving with respect to UUSC personnel or members of the board of trustees. Human Resources decides if a conflict of interest exists for UUSC personnel and elevates the matter to the President/CEO or the President of the board of trustees as appropriate. The board completes a conflict of interest form annually which is then shared with the full board. Any conflicted individual is prohibited from voting or making any decisions related to the matter. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The compensation of the President/CEO is determined by the executive committee of the board of trustees, all of whom are independent of the President/CEO. The compensation is determined by reference to comparability data. The President/CEO's compensation is reviewed and potentially adjusted annually upon board approval. The organization maintains contemporaneous documentation of the deliberation and decision. Compensation for other officers is determined by the President/CEO. Such compensation is similarly determined by reference to comparability data. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | UUSC makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public by publishing them on its website. Additionally, the Form 990 and financial statements are available through the Massachusetts Attorney General's website. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Change in Value of Split-interest Gifts 36,063. |
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