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- 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)
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 227 | 1,892 | 11,791 | 8,225 | 654,706 | 676,841 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf .... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 227 | 1,892 | 11,791 | 8,225 | 654,706 | 676,841 |
| 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) .. | 423,185 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 253,656 | |||||
Calendar year
(or fiscal year beginning in)
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 227 | 1,892 | 11,791 | 8,225 | 654,706 | 676,841 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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.).. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 676,841 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (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
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(a) 2019 | (b) 2020 | (c) 2021 | (d) 2022 | (e) 2023 | (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 on 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 0.015 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 0.035 | 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 | 1 | |
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
2 | |
| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | 3 | |
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | 4 | |
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required - provide details in Part VI) | 5 | |
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | 6 | |
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | 7 | |
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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 2023 from Section C, line 6 | 9 | |
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | 10 | |
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2023 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2023 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2023 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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2
Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2023 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI).
See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2023: | ||||
| a From 2018....... | ||||
| b From 2019....... | ||||
| c From 2020....... | ||||
| d From 2021....... | ||||
| e From 2022....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2023 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2018 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from line 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2023 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2023 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from line 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2023, 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 2023. 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 2024. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2019..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2020..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2021..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2022..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2023..... | ||||
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| Software ID: | 23018249 |
| Software Version: | v1.00 |
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| Form 990, Header, Line B | We have amended the total amount of cash raised for the project described in Part III, Line 4a to $26,976.79 from $26,076.79 (it was a typo, and was not used in the calculations in the rest of this return). We also amended the total expense of Line 4a and Schedule F Part 1, Line 3 (f) to $17,608. We also changed the amount of project revenue in Lines 4a and 4b to 0. We have amended the written explanation to our answer to Part VI, Line 11b to describe how our board processes a form 990 before it is sent to the IRS. The previous explanation merely said that they had reviewed this 990. We also rewrote our answer to Part VI, Line 12c, to include a summary of our compensation policy along with the summary of our conflict of interest policy. We have also changed our contributions total in Part VIII, Line 1f to $656,706 from $657,972, and our noncash donations total in Line 1g to $627,386 from $630,683. We have also added an itemized list of the Part IX, Line 11g total in Schedule O, and changed Line 11g's total to $12420, after removing the transfer fees for these payments to Line 13, office expenses, changing that total to $420 (we also added a filing fee to Line 13). In part IX we have also changed Line 14's total to $400 after adding a website charge and adjusting two others, and we changed Line 17's total to $5158 after removing wireless transfer charge to Line 13 and moving unused truck rental and driver services charges to prepaid assets. In part X, we changed Line 8 to $627,386 and Line 9 to $5526 to reflect our revised inventory and prepaid assets total for the end of the year, respectively. Also, in the previous submission of this document, we had mistakenly entered $1478 into Part X, Column A, Lines 25 and 26. We are replacing that number with the correct one, 0. In Part XII, Line 1, we changed our answer to "other," in order to explain that our accounting method is the cash method with the exception that we keep track of our prepaid assets. We have also revised Schedule A, Part II, Line 1, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14 and 15 after subtracting prepaid assets from our revenue totals for the years 2018 through 2023 (we had incorrectly thought that the cash method allowed for tracking of prepaid assets in the same category as noncash donations). We also corrected the mistake we made in Schedule A, Part II, Line 5 when we mistakenly included entire donations, instead of first subtracting 2% of the total support figure (Line 11(f)). In Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 (e), we had to amend our project activities summary to indicate that our shipment of clothes and other household goods did not leave Cotonou, Benin for Adre, Chad until early January, 2024, and to also amend our total project expenses to $17,608. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 2 | Shortly after the war in Sudan broke out on April 15, 2023, we began raising money for our new project, "Support for Displaced Families in West Darfur/Chad" on Global Giving, the well-known crowdfunding site for charities. We raised $627,386 in donated clothes, shoes, blankets and household items, and $26,976.79 in cash for this project. Our container of these donated items arrived at Cotonou, Benin in late August 2023. We distributed them in Adre Chad from March 18 through 26, 2024. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 3 | This was our first shipment of donated items from the US to one of our areas of aid distribution. Normally we bought aid distribution items in those areas in order to save money on shipping. But the war in Sudan that began on April 15, 2023 last year was so brutal to among many others the Massalit people of El Geneina, and that there were no clothes or other items available for purchase in the amounts need, the Darfuri community decided to collect the distribution items in the US and ship them overseas, requiring shipping by boat from Houston, TX to Cotonou, Benin, then overland to Adre Chad, many hundreds of miles to the north east. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 | The Doroti Organization is a 501 (c) (3) public charity that must answer the 2023 990 Part VI Line 6 because it has members. There is only one class of members. They are entitled to elect directors and vote on certain resolutions, and are not charged any dues. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a | All Doroti Organization members have the right to vote for directors, who in turn serve on our board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b | The following resolutions must be approved by Doroti Organization members in order to take effect: changes to our articles of incorporation; the sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge or other distribution of all, or substantially all, of the corporation's assets; the voluntary dissolution of the corporation; a plan of the distribution of assets from the dissolving corporation; and any other decision requiring such approval by law. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 10b | The Doroti Organization directly supervises its local unit, the Doroti Organization team that was in El Geneina Sudan and, from June 2023 onwards (due to the massacre of El Geneina in the Spring of 2023), in Adre, Chad. Our President maintained close contact with them via phone and text messages (sometimes more than once a week), and updated the rest of the board as needed. Prior to this, one of our previous officers explained our bylaws to them in detail over the phone. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b | The board of directors review and approve the form 990 before filing. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c | Section Nine of our bylaws describes our compensation and conflict of interest policy. It covers any interested person, including any director, principle officer, member of a committee with governing board powers and any other disqualified person who has a direct or indirect financial interest. Our policy requires all interested persons to disclose any potential or actual conflicts of interest to the board of directors, and then remove themselves from the process. The board then investigates, discusses and votes on whether or not a conflict of interest exists. Next it considers if the nonprofit could use a different transaction to avoid the conflict of interest; if it can find no alternative, it must vote whether or not the conflict of interst transaction "is in the corporation's best interest, for its own benefit, and whether it is fair and reasonable." If, finding that it has not been notified of a potential or actual conflict of interest, the board gives the person concerned a chance to explain themselves, after which presentation that person leaves the process. Next, without the concerned person, the board investigates and decides whether or not the concerned person failed to disclose an actual or potential conflict of interest. All meeting minutes for these proceedings name the interested persons, who disclosed or had a financial interest in the conflict of interest, a description of this financial interest, what was done to determine if it was or was not a conflict of interest, and the board's decision. Also recorded are any alternatives to the conflict of interest transaction, the names of those present, a description of the discussions of the matter, and a record of any votes taken. Compensation is decided upon by the board before it is paid and without the participation of the person to be paid; following the conflict of interest policy and removing any board memeber with a potential or actual conflict of interest from the compensation approval processes. The board also compares the potential transaction to comparable data to ensure the nonprofit would get a fair market value price. Meeting minutes for compensation meetings include the same things as are recorded in the conflict of interest meetings, as well as the terms of the compensation, names of those present, including those who voted and how they voted, and the comparability data, and, if applicable, why the board approved a compensation above or below the comparison data's average compensation for such goods or services, and any actions taken to ensure no board member with a conflict of interest influenced or took part in the proceedings. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 | The Doroti Organization made its articles of incorporation, byalws (which contains among other things its conflict of interest policy), its Form 1023 with attachments, and its filed series 990 forms available to the public on request. |
| Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g | This money was spent on getting our clothing, shoes, and blankets donations from Houtson, TX to Cotonou, Benin by boat. The itemized list is: $5,000 to Abex (maritime shipping company), $140 to the Port Authority of Cotonou, Benin, $6,420 to Benin Terminal, the Cotonou-based shipment storage facility, and $860 to Maersk for shipping services. Total comes to $12,420. |
| Software ID: | 23018249 |
| Software Version: | v1.00 |