2025-10-01T16:33:38-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 831887223 UNION SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL INC UNIO 6176283838 337 Somerville Avenue Somerville MA 02143 William Shelton Treasurer 6176283838 2025-09-29 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://sites.google.com/view/usnc X X 30602 X 30600 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30602 0 0 0 500 138 0 256 894 29708 1743 -20002 11449 X 21744 51452 0 0 0 0 21744 51452 20001 40003 1743 11449 X S22 Neighborhood Association Solicited insights, desires, concerns and preferences from neighborhood stakeholders and transmitted this information to City of Somerville staff and real estate developers to help shape development plans, benefitting approximately 19,000 people who live, work, manage businesses and own property in the neighborhood. 0 0 Conducted neighborhood forums and events and maintained a website covering topics identified as important or of interest to approximately 19,000 residential and business neighbors. 0 0 Negotiated Community Benefits agreements with real estate developers. These agreements benefit those who live, work, or own property in the Union Square neighborhood as well as three nonprofit organizations, altogether totaling approximately 21,000 residents, workers, business owners, and nonprofit clients. 0 0 0 Matthias Rudolf Co-Chair 12 0 0 0 Michele Hansen Co-Chair 12 0 0 0 Emily Doran Secretary 5 0 0 0 William Shelton Treasurer 4 0 0 0 Ann Camara Director 4 0 0 0 Bill Cavellini Director 5 0 0 0 Isabella Drago Director 4 0 0 0 Marie-Elle Merchant Director 4 0 0 0 Mary Napolitano Director 2 0 0 0 Sam Epstein Director 2 0 0 0 Victoria Antonino Director 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MA William Shelton 65 BOSTON ST SOMERVILLE MA 02143 6176283838 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 871 23825 30600 55296 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 871 23825 30600 55296 55296 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 55299 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Zoom subscription, $170; State of Massachusetts filing fees, $50; Bank service charges, $36. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 In 2024 we received $20,000 from CV Properties as contractually required by a Community Benefits Agreement between our corporation and that company. The purpose of these funds is to support the planning and development of a neighborhood community center. Although we have recognized these funds as revenue, we are holding them in escrow until such time and such an organization exists that will conduct this planning and development. Accordingly, we show them as a liabilty, and we cannot spend these funds nor otherwise use them to support any of our organizational activity. We received the same amount of funds ($20,000) from the same company in 2023, which we which we have accounted for in the same way. Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 We classify $40,003 dollars, representing two donations of $20,000 each and $3 in interest as a liability, as we are holding it in escrow for future use in funding planning and development of a community center by a as-yet unidentified organization. Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line (28-31) We do not list specific grant amounts for each accomplishment because we only receive general-support funds. Moreover, it would be difficult to differentiate expenses between these accomplishments, as the activities required to produce them--all performed by volunteers--often overlap. And, the entire amount of funds that we spent on all activities amounted to only $894. As noted above, $20,000 of our stated revenue is held in escrow to support future activities that we will not perform. We are an all-volunteer organization. I was out of the United States up to and at the time of the required filing. When I returned, it escaped my 77-year-old brain that we had missed the filing deadline. I offer this as a statement of fact rather than as an excuse. Although I am in possession of the organization's financial records, other information required to complete all questions in this return is dispersed among several other volunteers, which information took some time to acquire. When I assembled the information and prepared the 990-EZ, I delivered it in the form of mailed PDF printouts. Learning that these were not acceptable, I am submitting our return now in electronic form.