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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (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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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 8,141,734 | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,351,474 | 40,169,699 |
| 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 | 8,141,734 | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,351,474 | 40,169,699 |
| 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).. | 3,967,749 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 36,201,950 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 8,141,734 | 7,674,074 | 8,042,642 | 6,959,775 | 9,351,474 | 40,169,699 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 257,222 | 303,624 | 218,406 | 320,506 | 260,054 | 1,359,812 |
| 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 | 41,612,534 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (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.) | ||||||
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (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): |
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| 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 | ||||
| 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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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 2019 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-2019 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2019 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2019: | ||||
| a From 2014....... | ||||
| b From 2015....... | ||||
| c From 2016....... | ||||
| d From 2017....... | ||||
| e From 2018....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2014 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2019 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2019, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2019. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2020. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2015..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2019..... | ||||
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| Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission: | Guided by UU principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UUSC strives to advance human rights, dismantle systems of oppression, and uplift and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all people. We center the voices and experiences of those most affected and strengthen those grassroots groups and movements who are organizing themselves to advance these goals. In order to accomplish this, we offer justice education and leadership development; engagement and mobilization for advocacy; partner support; and grant funding. UUSC aims to leverage our particular strategic assets and strengths to disrupt criminalization and systemic oppression of people based on their identities; support self-determination and defend the rights of people who are or may be forced to leave the places they call home due to climate, conflict, or economic hardship, and address the root causes of forced displacement; and respond to humanitarian crises as partners with people whose access to aid is most limited, by helping them to rebuild their lives and by addressing the human rights issues or violations that make them more vulnerable. In all of our work, UUSC and our partners work with the communities most affected by injustice, including: In Burma, all of our partners are focused on protecting the rights of the Rohingya Muslim minority, currently facing a crisis of displacement and a military campaign of genocide. In Mexico and Central America, UUSC's partners work with people who have been displaced from their home countries by state-sanctioned violence, are at risk of being displaced, or who have been repatriated and are in continued danger. In the U.S., our partners work with criminalized populations, including undocumented people, those at risk of deportation, and humanitarian aid workers seeking to assist those making the dangerous journey from Mexico to the U.S. border. In Alaska and the Pacific, UUSC's partners are advancing and protecting the rights of populations at risk of climate-forced displacement, and upholding the "right to resist" extractive development projects that threaten to displace their communities and destroy their ancestral lands. In the Bahamas, UUSC is supporting grassroots partners working with the communities most impacted by Hurricane Dorian, including Haitian immigrants who are subjected to ongoing discrimination and completely ignored by the mainstream response to the hurricane. In the past fiscal year, UUSC made 100 grants and amendments worth approximately $1.15M to grassroots organizations working in countries around the world. What Is Our Impact What does it mean to have a human rights "impact"? For UUSC, it means building movements for systemic change. Impact is amplifying the power of the grassroots and following the leadership of communities directly affected by injustice. It is addressing immediate harms and their root causes, in order to dismantle oppressive systems. In short, it is the steps we must take on the way to building a more just, equitable, and regenerative world. These are ambitious goals to be sure. Achieving them will take time, and the work that will make them possible is not always quantifiable or readymade for public consumption. The themes, stories, and outcomes we choose to highlight, therefore, are chosen because they help us understand whether or not we are headed toward those long-term, systemic impacts, as we strive to make progress on our human rights goals. We are proud that many of our highlights showcase UUSC's approach: consulting with our grassroots partners, frontline communities, and other allies and then leveraging whatever resources we have to make a collective impact on our shared struggle for justice and human rights. In every case, we aim to put our grassroots partners at the center, showing the power of social change when it is led by communities confronting oppression and injustice. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: | Migrant Justice Expenses $2,852,773 including grants of $481,296. Revenue: $20,470 This year, UUSC helped strengthen grassroots movements, addressed immediate harms while working toward systemic solutions, and centered the experiences and wisdom of the communities most impacted by injustice. Below are just a few of the highlights of how we did this, including by: - Supporting a feminist collective to address immediate forms of political violence and pursuing systemic alternatives to the capitalist models of food production that contribute to widespread displacement of peasant farmers in Nicaragua. - Helping our grassroots partner in Guatemala build a network to accompany and reintegrate Indigenous Mayan youth who have been separated from their families and returned to Guatemala, and how UUSC has supporting ongoing advocacy in Washington, D.C. - Continuing to combat the Trump administration's racist family separation policies, through advocacy, partner support, and justice education, while working alongside our partners to strengthen an inclusive movement for permanent protections for undocumented immigrants. - With our partners, allies, and members, contributing to a grassroots movement to expand sanctuary and resist criminalization in the American South. - Partnering with a grassroots, women-led group in Honduras to strengthen women's organizations from the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna community who are seeking to combat high levels of violence against women and human rights violations resulting from mega tourism projects in the area. - Providing legal support for the ongoing defense of the defenders of the Guapinol river, who were wrongfully placed in pre-trial imprisonment since September 2019. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: | Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Expenses $2,316,779 including grants of $390,868. Revenue: $16,628 - Launching a campaign to defend the "right to resist," including by supporting the Carrizo Comecrudo/Esto'k Gna Tribe of Texas' continued resistance to planned oil and gas pipelines, and the Tribe's ongoing advocacy and litigation against the U.S. government. - Supporting an alternative" Conference of the Parties ("COP") one by and for Indigenous leaders held alongside the official site of COP 25. - Partnering with First and Indigenous communities on path-breaking work to create an alternative narrative of the climate crisis, including the submission of a complaint to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. - Sponsoring two of our partners from the Pacific to attend COP 25 and contribute their valuable first-hand experience of relocation and the plight of Small Island States to the discussions and to support the Indigenous Peoples Platform, a formal platform for Indigenous peoples to engage with the United Nations Framework. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4c: | Crisis Response Expenses $1,361,752 including grants of $301,963. Revenue: $13,949 - Bolstering a youth-led campaign in Florida to tell the story about living in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, using photography, video, and stories of their own experiences. - Cultivating and mobilizing a justice and accountability movement in Burma, including by supporting a burgeoning youth-led movement among members of the large Rohingya diaspora community. - Convening our seven partners in the Balkans region for the purposes of understanding the impact of our response to the Syrian refugee crisis; offering our partners another chance to connect (we convened these same groups once before, in 2017), strategize, and learn from each other; and, at the request of our partners, providing a day-long fundraising training by UUSC's Chief Development Officer. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: | UU College of Social Justice The UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is structured as a program unit of the UUSC, jointly governed by the UUA and UUSC for the benefit of both organizations under the terms of a joint operating agreement. UUCSJ's mission is to inspire and sustain faith-based activism for justice, on issues of local, national and global importance. We accomplish this through a variety of experiential learning programs, and through workshops and resources designed for use in our UU congregations. Through early March of fiscal year 2020, we offered immersion learning journeys to the Arizona/Mexico border with BorderLinks and No More Deaths; to El Salvador with Cristosal; and to West Virginia with the Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS). A majority of these programs were designed for high school youth or for multi-generational groups. Each of our programs utilized our adult or youth Study Guides for preparation and follow-up. As of early March, with the beginning of the pandemic and mandatory closings across the country, UUCSJ suspended all of our in-person programs and workshops, and began the process of developing new forms of online learning to continue fulfilling our mission. We continued our annual collaboration with the UUA on the UU-UNO Spring Seminar, adapting our workshops to an online format. We continued to expand our capacity for congregational trainings and workshops this year, and these too have now been adapted to an online format, as has our work with the UU State Action Networks (SANs). Building on last year's work with Freedom for Immigrants, in the fall we launched a new initiative, the Congregational Accompaniment Program for Asylum Seekers (CAPAS), working with over 25 congregations interested in directly sponsoring a refugee who is in process toward asylum. One of our most important programs in recent years has been our capacity to recruit, screen, and deploy skilled volunteers, especially Spanish speakers, to border regions. These scores of volunteers brought a much-needed infusion of human capital to Annunciation House (El Paso, TX), RAICES (San Antonio, TX), Al Otro Lado (San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico) and Casa Alitas (Tucson, AZ). To support these volunteers before and after their immersion at the border we created a new Volunteer Handbook and continued our monthly support calls for returned volunteers. Over the first part of the year, the volume of refugees permitted to access their right to asylum and safety began to shrink dramatically due to government policies hostile to all forms of immigration. When the pandemic struck, no volunteers were able to travel; and thus far, only Al Otro Lado has been able to make consistent use of online volunteers. Our internships for college age young adults placed 9 interns with justice organizations in the US; our interns are supported with small stipends and frequent check-ins from CSJ Program Leaders serving as internship liaisons as well as by our staff (these continued despite the pandemic shut-downs). Beginning almost immediately with the pandemic, UUCSJ staff and Program Leaders began experimenting with entirely new online offerings (in addition to adapting in-person versions to an online platform). We have now developed and offered a wide range of Community Action Circles to UU constituents and donors, ministers and religious educators, and organizers/activists with accompaniment networks, among others. We have developed Centering Circles for religious leaders seeking to adapt their own pastoral skills to the needs of online ministry, and are in the early stages of new curricula that will advance organizing and activism on the key priority issues of both UUSC and the UUA. All of our programs are supported by the UUCSJ Study Guide for Cross-Cultural Engagement and by adaptations to the Guide for different age groups. They are led by staff and by our Program Leaders, who we support with an annual retreat. Our current cadre of 20 Program Leaders includes 13 ministers, seminarians or Directors of Religious Education; 11 are people of color and 8 are fluent Spanish speakers. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | 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 -22,991. |
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