2025-08-15T13:36:19-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 611663030 OURSPACE WORLD INC OURS 6786130427 4716 Ridgeline Terrace Bowie MD 20720 Aitalohi Amaize Administrative Director 6786130427 2025-05-06 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Aitalohi Amaize 4716 Ridgeline Terrace Bowie MD 20720 1461069 0 X https://www.ourspaceworld.org/ X 2011 MD The mission of OurSpace World is to cooperatively educate, organize, and support groups of earth healers and land stewards. We help systematically disadvantaged farmers, builders, healers, and educators attain sovereignty and sustainability through partnerships and wise resource acquisition and management. 5 5 0 95 0 0 1326101 1309700 142345 151369 22 0 0 0 1468468 1461069 96183 118378 0 0 210558 676174 0 0 3316 621908 830488 928649 1625040 539819 -163971 928630 687932 172884 100357 755746 587575 We help systematically disadvantaged farmers, builders, healers, and educators attain sovereignty and sustainability through partnerships and wise resource acquisition and management. OurSpace World builds capacity and long-term community sustainability through supporting education and service to the land. We help support whole-person health, low-cost sustainable housing, education, and regenerative farm and land renewal practices through skills training and technical assistance. OurSpace World's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OurSpace World's program goals. OurSpace World manages project finances and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OurSpace World's mission. 0 0 709866 738950 39021 Calabash: Fiscal Sponsorship. OSW's fiscal sponsorship program provides management support to mission driven groups aligned with OSW's vision and program goals. OSW manages project finance and provides administrative support for a variety of individual projects related to OSW's mission. Calabash trains technical assistance providers to support farmers with business planning and grant writing. 612855 462950 85182 TUI: Community cooperative support. OSW supports the cooperative efforts of land and food centric enterprises and the workers involved. The organization supports the synergistic goals of different stakeholder groups by helping to coordinate shared labor, shared markets, and other resources that can be leveraged for broad community impact. 126966 80000 19425 Teach 22: Education, skills building, and training for job and economic development. OSW's historical mission has been to build leadership within the community by teaching and training valuable skills to individuals in the community to support growth of whole-person health, sustainable housing, and education. OSW has added farming, natural building, and land management skills to this. The organization trains people in basic farming and construction of basic farm infrastructure every year. OSW's Teach 22: Journeys programming is designed to give students a break from technology and virtual learning by giving them hands-on learning enrichment in natural settings such as farms and parks. Camp EarthPact during the summer, and Earth School during the school year, are the branches of Teach 22 youth programming OSW is currently refining. 0 0 0 1449687 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 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 MD X Farris Johnson 6786130427 4716 Ridgeline Terrace Bowie MD 20720 Kwabena Sika Operations Director 40 0 X X 61666 0 0 Aita Amaize Administrative Director 40 0 X 59096 0 0 Nichele Vaughn Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Adjoa Oriyomi Board President 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Deanna Barath Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 LaShaune Stitt Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Dorothy Morrison Board Member 2 0 X 0 0 0 120762 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1502 0 828716 479482 0 1309700 Shared Services Cooperative 424410 122265 122265 0 0 African-centered youth summer camp program 110000 20437 20437 0 0 Technical Assistance and Fiscal Sponsorship 541611 8667 8667 0 0 0 0 0 0 151369 0 0 0 0 1442 0 1461069 151369 0 0 X 0 0 118378 118378 0 0 0 0 126812 63406 63406 0 0 0 0 0 434295 434295 0 0 0 0 0 65223 47446 17777 0 49844 44149 5695 0 0 0 0 0 514 96 418 0 60961 0 60961 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 495240 491721 2769 750 0 0 0 0 131108 119982 10534 592 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14101 14101 0 74156 71178 2978 0 0 0 0 0 9596 6294 1328 1974 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28537 28537 16275 10104 6171 0 0 1625040 1449687 172037 3316 689914 393680 6702 12892 5785 344 330586 49570 226229 281016 928630 687932 38867 166846 45595 6038 15895 172884 100357 X 202184 245254 553562 342321 755746 587575 928630 687932 -163971 0 0 0 -4200 0 X 0 1 X 0 1 1 X 128913 216755 281296 1326101 1309699 3262764 5058 15578 142345 151369 314350 128913 221813 296874 1468446 1461068 3577114 3577114 22 22 0 0 0 22 0 22 128913 221813 296874 1468468 1461068 3577136 0.99999 0.99999 0.00001 0.00001 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 53920 0 0 53920 0 0 0 0 276666 0 49570 227096 0 0 0 0 281016 1546 DC and Maryland Income Taxes 14349 15895 1 Fountain Heights Cooperative LLC 1215 16th Street North Birmingham AL 35204 844876022 184866 Capital campaign for on-farm infrastructure and access to fresh, healthy, local food in their community of focus. Grandmothers Village Project 75 North Main St Randolph MA 02368 921154044 23046 Boston Foundation 1 1 Capital campaign for on-farm infrastructure and access to fresh, healthy, local food in their community of focus. 1 184866 Funding for the startup of an elder/Black/indigenous intentional community in MA 1 23046 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 The fiscal sponsor fulfills all legal, tax and regulatory requirements of philanthropic and charitable nonprofit organizations and complies with the letter and the spirit of all laws. The fiscal sponsor is knowledgeable about and complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws, routinely informing and educating leaders of sponsored projects about the practical intent and application of such laws. The fiscal sponsor has incorporated as a nonprofit entity according to the requirements of state and federal law and remains in good standing. The fiscal sponsor manages all funds, assets and other resources under its control with a high degree of responsibility, integrity, transparency and accountability. Annual Financial Audit - The fiscal sponsor retains the services of an independent certified public accountancy firm to conduct and present to the board of directors an annual financial audit consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and available to the public. The fiscal sponsor requires financial statements to be produced for all funds transferred from the fiscal sponsor to the sponsored entity. Supporting documentation is also required to verify funds have been spend in accordance with the terms of the agreement between the fiscal sponsor and the sponsored entity. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The board chair (Aita Amaize) and executive director (Farris Johnson / Kwabena Sika) have been married since 2016. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Form 990 was prepared by the Executive Director and provided to members for review and comment before finalizing and filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Members review the policy annually and provide verbal confirmation of compliance during this review. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Executive Director compensation is reviewed and approved by the board after considering similarly situated organizations and fund availability. This process is performed annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g OSW is partnered several farm and agricultural related projects. As a fiscal sponsor entity, the organization processes payments to contractors and contracted farm businesses as part of its role in managing the proper distribution of grant funds. Additionally OSW is developing an extensive technical assistance training program, and has brought on several contractors to develop the training program. Due to the series of executive orders and subsequent federal funding pause at the beginning of 2025, our organization lost access to the funds necessary to pay our in-house accounting team to do final reports and accounting work finalize our 2024 books. We have just recently regained access to enough funding to resume normal accounting and finance operations. After processing the backlog of work, our accounting team has now finalized our 2024 books, and thus only now able to accurately fill out the 990. Thank you for your patience and understanding.