2025-11-03T19:42:24-07:00 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 900644826 DOROTI ORGANIZATION FOR HUMANITARIAN SERVICES INCORPORATED DORO 5026408433 1341 Lydia Street Louisville KY 40217 Ilias Hassan Director, Treasurer 4144585473 2023-11-20 1 2022 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Cash method, except we record prepaid expenses separate from revenue X X X 8225 X 8225 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8225 0 0 0 578 0 323 7863 8764 -539 887 0 348 X 851 303 0 0 36 45 887 348 0 0 887 348 To provide educational and charity support to Darfuri civilians worldwide. Urgent aid for El Geneina area, West Darfur, Sudan. On June 20 and 21, 2022, we distributed approximately 10,725 kg of millet to 20,986 displaced people (or 427 families) in Kereneik Town, West Darfur State, Sudan. The people we helped had been displaced by violence in December 2021 and April 22-25, 2022. We learned from them that they wanted food from us more than anything else, so we purchased the millet in El Geneina (in the neighboring locality to the west). Millet is one of the staple crops of Sudan. 0 7581 Free dial-a-translator service. Darfuris newly arrived to the US could call people on our list and have their Arabic or Massalit (the language shares its name with the tribe that speaks it) and have conversations with English speakers through us. This helped new arrivals learn what they needed to know during visits to doctor's offices, pharmacies and elsewhere. All of the translators were Board members, and all of our Board and Membership are from Darfur. Seven people called us for translation assistance in 2022. 0 0 7581 Khamis Youssif Director, President 4 0 0 0 Mohammed Abdallah Director, Vice President 19.5 0 0 0 Abdulatif Isaak Director, Secretary 21 0 0 0 Mohammed Abdulrahman Director, Treasurer 4 0 0 0 Mohammed Abdulkarim Director 2.5 0 0 0 X 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KY Phil L Nippert 1158 Eastern Parkway Apartment One Louisville KY 40217 5026408433 1 SU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 5359 227 1892 11791 8225 27494 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5359 227 1892 11791 8225 27494 2862 24632 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27494 0 0.89590 0.44 X Form 990-EZ, Header, Line B Since we are amending this information return for other reasons, we are updating our address in it, as well. We use a hybrid style of accounting. We use the cash method in all ways except that we track our prepaid assets. We recently learned that prepaid assets are not counted as revenue, and so in this amended 990-EZ, we have had to remove the $591.30 in prepaid assets we gained in 2022 from our total revenue figure of $8816, which mistakenly contained the value of those assets. The new total for Part I, Line 1 is $8225. We also changed Part II, Column A Line 22, by removing the prepaid assets from the revenue of 2021, changing $1387 to $851. A review of our spreadsheet also found a slight mistake for Part II, Col. A, Line 24, requiring us to change $39 to $36. This led to our revising our end of year assets from $1478 to $348. For the same reason, we had to change our Schedule A, Part II information. We had to subtract the total value of noncash donations that were prepaid assets from Schedule A, Part II, Lines 1 a through e (from $5886 to $5359, $655 to $227, $2450 to $1892, $12,346 to $11791, and $8816 to $8225, respectively). These corrections changed the total for Lines 4, 7 and 11 from $30,153 to $27,494. Also, in Schedule A, Line 5, we mistakenly included the entirety of all donations over the 2% public support threshold, instead of first removing the 2% amount from each before adding them for the Line 5 amount. Correcting this changed the Line 5 total from $8212 to 2,862. Because of these corrections, our Line 14 total changes from 72.77% to 89.59%. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Line 16, Other Expenses: Partial reimbursement of three hotel rooms for four people: $400 Malware scanning for website: $36 Webhosting for website: 239.40 Tracfone cards: 84.80 PO Box rental: 176.14 Website security: 33.15 Website domain name rental: $15.99 Approximately 10,725 kg of millet: $6,175.71 Additional expenses for millet distribution in Kereneik Town, West Darfur, Sudan: $7.61 Pens: $1.15 Toothbrushes, soap: $5.41 West Darfur State booking: $69.03 Truck security: $23.01 Seven travel tickets: $64.42 Five ID lanyards: $6.90 One large notebook: $4.60 Four days' food, phone minutes, misc to help staff carry out the millet distribution: $64.42 Transit permit: $57.52 Four days' breakfast and dinner, for millet distribution staff: $184.06 Loading and unloading assistants: $213.98 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Line 24, Other Assets: column (A): Webhosting for Jan 1 and 2, 2022: $1.29 Malware scanning for Jan 1 through Jan 27, 2022: $2.61 US PO Box rental for Jan 1 through Feb 28, 2022: $23.80 Website domain name rental for Jan 1 through March 2, 2022: $2.67 Website security for Jan 1 through April 4, 2022: $8.54 column (B): Webhosting for Jan 1 and Jan 2, 2023: $1.29 Malware scanning for Jan 1 through Jan 27, 2023: $2.61 US PO Box rental for Jan 1 through Feb 28, 2023: $29.66 Website domain name rental for Jan 1 through February 28, 2023: $2.67 Website security for Jan 1 through April 4, 2023: $8.54 Form 990-EZ, Part V, Line 33 Line 33, Change in Activities Raising money to give to other organizations overseas to help Darfuri civilians. One of our projects listed in our 2013 application for nonprofit status. We never gave money to another entity to aid Darfuri civilians outside the US because of lack of experience and money. Books and literacy videos. Another project submitted with our nonprofit application. Not begun in order to concentrate on our winter clothing and guides to US life aid to Darfuri new arrivals in the US project. Winter clothes, guides to US for Darfur refugees and permanent residents in the US. From October 2015 to December 2019, we sent clothes, household items and / or guides to US life written by three of our Board of Directors and money for purchasing used clothes to 215 new arrivals to the US living in CA, WA, NE, KS, TX, IL, MI, KY, OH, PA and NY. Djabal, Chad School building project. Begun in 2018, ended in 2019 due lack of donor interest. Urgent aid for El Geneina area, West Darfur, Sudan. Begun in January 2020, ended in 2023 when the Board launched a new project in response to the catastrophic effect of the war breaking out in Darfur and the rest of Sudan in April. Within this time-frame, we distributed tarps, sleeping mats, blankets, clothes, shoes, food and / or money to 1,659 displaced families and 353 displaced individuals in El Geneina and Kereneik Town in West Darfur State. Form 990-EZ, Part V, Line 34 Line 34, Changes in Organizing or Governing Documents: May 22, 2012, amendments to articles of incorporation: Article Three, Purpose, sentence one: to allow for alternate spellings of the name of the Massalit tribe, and to remove the word "refugees" in the statement of purpose. Article Four, Item One: including members and directors in prohibition against private benefit, apart from reasonable compensation. Article Four, Item 3, "Exemption Requirements": mention of the fact that donations to our organization are tax deductible. Article Six, subtitle and first paragraph: changed to include members. Article Seven, personal liability: changed to include members, employees and other private persons working for the nonprofit. May 27, 2012: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 1: changing number of directors on the board to fourteen. Bylaws, Article 3, Section 10: changing the board of directors' quorum to eight. 2013, Bylaws, Article 3, Section 1: changing the number of directors on the board of directors to eight. May 26, 2013, Bylaws, Article 3, Section 10: changing the board of directors' quorum to five. August 9, 2013, Articles of Incorporation, Article Three, Purpose: changing the beneficiaries of the nonprofit's statement of purpose from Massalit to Darfuri civilians worldwide. October 29, 2014, Articles of Incorporation: Change of name from The Association of Dar Massalit Sons in America, Incorporated to The Doroti Organization for Humanitarian Services, Incorporated. December 4, 2013, Article 2 Section 2: outlining four specific purposes, raising money for aid to Darfuri civilians outside the US, to provide Darfuri civilians in and outside the US with books and youtube videos teaching literacy, a free call-in translator service for Darfuri civilians in the US, and free provision of blankets, coats and other cold weather clothing to Darfuri civilians in need in the US. 2015, Bylaws, Article 3, Section 5: outlining a new way to elect approximately 33% of the board of the directors every two years, and changing directors' terms to six years. 2015, Bylaws, Article 9, Section 9: an accountable plan for reimbursement of expenses. 2016, Bylaws, Article 13, Sections 1,2 and 8: change to allow for member meetings to be held remotely at any place the board chooses; for regular meetings to be held annually; director elections every two years in person or remotely, by written ballot or remotely. 2021: Bylaws, Article 2, Section 2: to change the overall objective and purpose of the nonprofit to include Darfuri civilians worldwide, eliminate the literacy project, to specify that we will supply charitable aid to civilians in Darfur directly, and that we will provide cash to Darfuris in the US with which they may buy clothing. 2021: Bylaws, Article 13, Section 7, (e): adding "any other decisions requiring such approval by law" to the list of decisions requiring two-thirds of a members' meeting vote to pass. 2021: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 14: changing to allow for a number of directors below quorum due to vacancies to appoint enough directors to fill the vacancy or vacancies. 2021: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 16: changed to read that the nonliability of directors is limited to any legal limitations. 2021: Bylaws, Article 5, Section 1: amended to list specific things board-appointed committees may not do. 2021: Bylaws, Article 5, Section 2: specifying that nondirectors may serve on executive committees, but not vote on anyting that would legally bind the nonprofit. 2021: Bylaws, Article 13, Section 1: changed to permit that members' meetings may be held remotely, and to list specific ways the nonprofit must accomodate members and proxy holders attending a remote members' meeting. 2021: Bylaws, Article 13, Section 8: changed to allow for remotely held members' meetings to hold director elections. 2021: Bylaws, Article 13, Section 10: changed to specify that members' meetings shall be led according to the nonprofit corporation's meeting rules. 2021: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 5: due to pandemic, the director election procedure updated to 2021 and beyond, with the drawing of director names for reelection occurring on or before the 2021 annual meeting. November, 2021: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 1: Number of Directors on the board changed to seven. Bylaws, Article 3, Section 2: changed to include additional director qualifications (must know at least two of English, Arabic or Massalit, be current members of the nonprofit, and be a member of the founder's group). Bylaws, Aricle 3, Section 11: quorum for the board of directors changed to four. Bylaws, Article 4, Section 2: adding to officer requirements the provisions that they be an active nonprofit member and belong to the founders' group. Bylaws, Article 11, Section 1: specifying that whenever the articles of incorporation or bylaws require more votes from the directors, members than does Kentucky law, the articles of incorporation or bylaws shall control. Bylaws, Article 12, Section 2: qualifications of members amended to include being able to at least speak two of the following English, Arabic and Massalit, and also being a member of the founders' group. December, 2021: Bylaws, addition of Article 14, requiring the nonprofit to take necessary precautions to protect the identities of staff or beneficiaries in areas of concern. Bylaws, Article 3, Section 5: staggered election of approximately 33% of directors adjusted for 2022 through 2026, due to pandemic. Also added is a notice that all directors shall hold office until their successor is elected, qualifies and accepts the directorship. Bylaws, Article 6, Section 2: amended to specify procedures for signing checks, and transfering money electronically. December, 2022: Bylaws, Article 3, Section 2: changed to clarify that directors do not have to live in Kentucky. Bylaws, Article 3, Section 5: changed to allow for, if they so choose, all directors to run for reelection, instead of just approximately 33%. On November 14, our first 990-EZ was completed on another e-filer website. We mistakenly sent a 990-N in its place on November 15. On November 17, we completed a new 990-EZ with Schedules A and O on that other e-filing website, but later found some mistakes we made were in it. This 990-EZ and Schedules A and O is the amended return addressing those mistakes, sent from an e-filer that is willing to send it to the IRS free of charge.