2023-11-14T20:53:23-07:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 475322239 WHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS INC WHIT 2037808890 1253 Whitney Avenue Hamden CT 06517 Robert Sheiman Strategic Director 2037808890 2023-11-15 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z WCC Robert Sheiman 14 Webb Street Hamden CT 06517 297627 0 X www.whitneyvilleculturalcommons.org X 2015 CT We preserve and enhance places of communal and historic value by providing public spaces, tools, and knowledge as shared resources to support a thriving community socially, culturally, and economically. We envision a future where every community has valuable resources preserved for perpetual public use, with just and equitable access to enhance the quality of life for all. We: Preserve Historic Places: Steward historic properties in our trust with a commitment to preserving buildings and natural environments as part of the cultural landscape of the site. Develop Social Capital: Nuture communal relationships as host to diverse civic forums, public and private social events, and spiritual and cultural traditions. Champion Artistic Creation: Cultivate, celebrate and showcase artistic endeavors of all kings. Stimulate Economic Opportunity: Develop local organizations, individuals, and start-ups through coworking opportunities and the provision of shared information, materials and services. 7 6 4 15 0 0 282934 16360 285586 281267 728 0 0 0 569248 297627 0 4833 0 0 56235 99976 0 0 0 216313 209554 272548 314363 296700 -16736 1492247 1418981 1081537 1025007 410710 393974 Our mission is to preserve and enhance places of communal and historic value by providing public spaces, tools, and knowledge as shared resources to support a thriving community - socially, culturally, and economically. We envision a future where every community has valuable resources preserved for perpetual public use, with just and equitable access to enhance the quality of life for all. We: Preserve Historic Places: Steward historic properties in our trust with a commitment to preserving buildings and natural environments as part of the cultural landscape of the site. Develop Social Capital: Nurture communal relationships as host to diverse civic forums, public and private social events, and spiritual and cultural traditions. Champion Artistic Creation: Cultivate, celebrate, and showcase artistic endeavors of all kinds. Stimulate Economic Opportunity: Develop local organizations and individuals through co-working opportunities and the provision of shared info, material, and service. 0 0 204749 5179 398 As part of our historic preservation program, we purchased 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 continued 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 our other programs. With the shutdown from the pandemic continuing to lift, both the historic church and the church house became more used for the rest of our programs, allowing the historic preservation to continue. We also continued our partnership with the Episcopal Church of St Paul and St James in New Haven, at 57 Olive Street, preparing them to take over the operations of their own community resources center in 2023, with the WCC ceasing to manage any of the operations at that location. Preservation projects on the Whitneyville Untied Church of Christ continued, with Bob Zoni Inc Historic Preservation company helping us to finalize planned exterior restoration for that building in 2023. 40285 2707 123729 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. With the greatest fear of the pandemic past, we began to see an upturn in use of our assembly space program, steadily watching people come back out to socially gather. We hosted roughly one thousand five hundred community, nonprofit, and social gatherings during 2022, managing to come back a significant portion to pre-pandemic levels, though community turn out to activities was much reduced, even though the number of activities had increased past pre-pandemic levels. 22935 1560 71953 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 came back to operations which were near equal with pre-pandemic levels. 21314 1382 61466 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, Black Infinity Collective, Public Allies CT, Students for Educational Justice, Real Clear Foundation, and our solo-preneurs, did coworking actiivities in our facilities utilizing both communal spaces and private offices. 13793 364 2929 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. As we get repeated requests for objects to be available for use while at the WCC, we acquire them and add them to our library of objects. This year we installed curtain tracking across our Whitney Room, creating a means of using equipment to partition rooms in unique setups. 11287 658 20792 We produce, on our own and in partnership with members of the community and other organizations, 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. This year we partnered with the Winnett Food Forest, a permaculture community project seeking to build a food garden using permaculture principles in the Whitneyville neighborhood, and educate residents about permaculture. 46394 2404 85187 314363 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 CT X X Robert Sheiman 2037808890 1253 Whitney Ave Hamden CT 06517 Robert Sheiman Executive Director, Assistant Treasurer 40 0 X 15600 0 0 Tamberlaine Harris President and Member of the Board of Directors 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Rebecca Mandell Member of the Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Andrew Marchant-Shapiro Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 Addys Castillo Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 Denya McGee Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 Brendan Smith Vice President, Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 15600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16360 0 16360 Assembly Space Use 561210 123729 123729 0 0 Arts & Culture 711310 71953 71953 0 0 Coworking 561000 61466 61466 0 0 Community Education Programming 611710 20792 20792 0 0 Materials & Information Library 519120 2929 2929 0 0 398 398 0 0 281267 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 297627 281267 0 0 4833 4833 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92075 92075 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7901 7901 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 349 349 0 0 18495 18495 0 0 5722 5722 0 0 0 0 0 0 131914 131914 0 0 799 799 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16692 16692 0 0 31653 31653 0 0 Banking & Processing Fees 3930 3930 0 0 0 0 0 0 314363 314363 0 0 525708 469134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1050000 100153 966539 949847 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1492247 1418981 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 693169 637919 372100 372100 0 0 16268 14988 1081537 1025007 X 0 0 0 0 410710 393974 410710 393974 1492247 1418981 -16736 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 8877 35073 43834 283659 16357 387800 162040 224951 147367 285589 281350 1101297 170917 260024 191201 569248 297707 1489097 1489097 170917 260024 191201 569248 297707 1489097 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 399000 0 399000 651000 0 100153 550847 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 949847 376 Paypal Administered PPP 3250 CT Payroll Tax Liabilities 813 Security Deposits 7073 Unearned or Unallocated Donations & Grants 3476 14988 1253 Whitney LLC Business owned by Tamberlaine Harris, President of Board, who sold the property to the nonprofit Mortgage on 1247-1253 Whitney Avenue X 693519 637918 0 1 1 637918 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Board was given 2 weeks to review and comment, correct, or suggest edits on the 990 prior to submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 These are available upon direct request to WCC staff or board via email or phone call.