2026-05-14T22:15:15-07:00 2025-06-30 990 2024-07-01 205280780 SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC SOCI 4136281723 PO Box 21 Ashfield MA 01330 William Spademan Founder 4136281957 2026-05-13 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Common Good William Spademan PO Box 305 Ashfield MA 01330 990829 0 X CommonGood.earth X 2006 MA Common Good builds tools for a new community-centered democratic economy that supports each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat and a place to live, so that everyone is free to contribute to society in a way that brings them joy. 3 3 4 20 0 0 1489103 607146 203683 348476 42569 35207 0 0 1735355 990829 27661 212580 0 0 412429 353658 0 10175 10175 403385 992725 843475 1569138 891880 -578309 2572500 974988 1364749 345546 1207751 629442 Common Good shifts power from big business and distant government back to communities, where we see what's needed and care enough to support each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and guaranteed work. In a Common Good Economy, we gather locally to decide for ourselves our funding priorities -- with plenty of money to fund those decisions. Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy. 0 0 745674 82750 170254 The Truth Telling Project: to support and implement grassroots, community-centered truth-telling and reparations processes to achieve Black liberation and BIPOC solidarity, amplify traditionally silenced and disenfranchised voices, and abolish white supremacy. 163175 12190 -22103 Common Good Democratic Economics System: We design, promote, and support software, strategies, and contracts for a community-centered democratic economy. 137150 0 274161 Solar Subscriber Management System: We design and maintain software for managing subscriptions to cooperatively-owned community solar electric arrays, as a way to leverage more participation in our Common Good Democratic Economics System (see above) 116268 112170 179194 Mutual Aid Medford And Somerville: Taking collective responsibility for getting everyone through times of crisis. 105550 0 124730 Nonprofit Accountability Group:promoting racial equity, education, and environmental justice through the arts. 54783 5353 74315 North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival: A celebration of the artistic, agricultural and cultural bounty of the North Quabbin region. 92099 0 16470 Kibilio Community and Farm: an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice, working cooperatively toward educating for indigenous land justice and ecological balance. 47000 0 21759 Ile Orunmila Oshun: Empowering people through spiritual activism to access earth-based wisdom, spiritual guidance, herbally based remedies, and somatic practices, the tools needed to pursue their "freedom dreams". 23750 0 10000 Ubuntu Freedom: Building self-governance and freedom by creating a global society based on an understanding of our connection to each other, the earth, and the whole of nature. 9635 45 10104 North End Little Pantries: Combatting food insecurity in North Hartford, CT. 8373 33 8911 reparationWorks: Creating a thriving, lush Philadelphia through the sacred power of reparations. 2375 0 2500 Reentry Community Charitable farm: Supporting all who wish to return to the land to find freedom through agriculture and communal land stewardship. 2121 0 0 Shelburne Falls Community Orchard: An edible landscape of fruit trees, berries, herbs and pollinator plants and a food resource for local neighbors w/food insecurity, providing a welcoming space for climate education, art, music, and connecting to nature. 2004 4 1498 Montague Neighbors: Helping adults over sixty residing in the town of Montague to age in place with dignity and independence by offering volunteer services, access to information and community connections. 1900 0 2000 Haven's Harvest: offering timely and reliable surplus food pick-up and delivery in the New Haven, Connecticut area, connecting businesses with community sites through the transfer of high quality excess food. Recovered food is a community resource. Don't let good food go to waste! 1000 0 28500 ZEAL Co-Op: Cultivating emergent creative community development strategies to cooperatively own and steward the means of our cultural production. 62 0 1430 Food Fund: supporting members in helping others who are food insecure. 25 25 0 Susie King Taylor Square Foundation: Harnessing strength in numbers to influence public opinion in a positive way for all its citizens on the Georgia coast. 10 10 0 On Native Land: Promoting awareness of our colonial settler history and its impact on Indigenous peoples of Leverett, MA. 0 0 2790 Albita's Gift Fund: Providing a means for communities to support local businesses. 0 0 10001 Homegrown Maroons: Providing respite and reconnection to nature, to deepen a shared understanding of our relationship to and vision for freedom. 466955 117640 494202 1512954 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 0 0 0 0 0 1 175 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 MA X William Spademan 4136281957 PO Box 21 Ashfield MA 01330 Anthony Campbell Software Engineer 60 0 X 137150 0 0 Tenaya Taylor President 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Nkemdilim Nwodo Director 2 0 X 0 0 0 Cynthia Jacelon Director 2 X 0 0 0 William Spademan Executive Director 60 0 X X 0 0 0 137150 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 607146 0 607146 Solar Subscriber Management System 900099 274161 274161 0 0 Celebrations of local culture 711320 74315 74315 0 0 0 0 0 0 348476 35207 35207 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 990829 383683 0 0 X 38365 38365 174215 174215 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 338053 338053 0 0 0 15605 15605 577828 577828 22099 22099 10175 10175 27255 27255 21386 21386 1485 1485 43456 43456 15000 15000 84043 84043 160253 160253 24067 24067 bank fees 9063 9063 0 0 government fees 3237 0 3237 0 change in risk assessment of investments 1938 1938 0 0 All other expenses 1615 0 1615 0 1569138 1512954 46009 10175 X 2310743 635316 68310 233757 208462 62900 0 0 62900 28000 2572500 974988 10140 10521 1331368 327305 0 21908 7720 1333 0 1364749 345546 X 394645 235255 813106 394187 1207751 629442 2572500 974988 -578309 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 161308 1126216 173207 1488833 607146 3556710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 161308 1126216 173207 1488833 607146 3556710 3556710 21603 93648 17574 42569 35207 210601 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3767311 274161 0.94410 0.59375 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 payments received for collaborative development of technology for community-level economic democracy RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 1 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62900 0 62900 62900 Schedule D, Part IV, Line 2b (1) We hold funds (a "Community Fund") for each participating community until that community decides to invest some or all of those funds. 1 food assistance 5000 174215 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 For grants of $5k or more, we require grant recipients to categorize each expenditure before the funds are released. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 We have members, but they have no rights or privileges and anyone can join at no cost to become a member. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A link to this Form 990 is emailed to each Director of the organization. Comments and suggestions from the directors are included in the materials we supply to our auditors and incorporated into a revised filing if advised by the auditor. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c In any discussion of payment to an individual, business, or organization, the Executive Director or President reminds Directors: (1) that our policy requires conflicts of interest to be disclosed, (2) that any Director having a conflict of interest must abstain from participation in discussion of such payment, and (3) that the disclosure and abstention must be recorded in the meeting minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Executive Director compensation is decided in a board meeting with consideration of market rates and economic justice. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Our governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available by request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11c Accounting is listed as a program service expense because most of the accounting is for the democratic economic system that is central to our mission. Form 990, Part X, Line 1 Lines 1-33. While preparing this return we discovered that our previous tax year filing (Tax Year 2023) had several errors and will need to be corrected. This Tax Year 2024 return presents the correct data, to the best of our knowledge at this time. However, we also have an audit in progress, which may result in further changes to the previous tax year filing. If that happens we will refile this current tax year filing with corrected previous year data.