2018-10-08T19:54:13-05:00 2017-12-31 454060696 CCA LLP 2300 Contra Costa Blvd Ste 220 Pleasant Hill CA 94523 990 2017-01-01 061368627 Neighborhood Funders Group NEIG 5104446063 436 14th Street No 425 Oakland CA 94612 Dennis Quirin Executive Director 5105071554 2018-10-08 1 CCA LLP P00587987 9256852911 2018-10-02 74.95.5.201 2018-10-08 19:54:11 PD P DA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709 11C41341E2825BA9C348AF826C977EBB3B18B533 2017 2018-06-14 16:35:46Z Dennis Quirin 436 14th Street No 425 Oakland CA 94612 5056949 0 X www.nfg.org X 1991 CA Build the capacity of philanthropy to advance social justice. 13 13 14 13 0 0 2946845 5023409 143841 30436 1161 3104 1361 0 3093208 5056949 0 245500 0 0 846225 1090508 0 0 92661 1024975 1085282 1871200 2421290 1222008 2635659 2792181 5417323 222633 212116 2569548 5205207 X Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG) builds the capacity of philanthropy to advance social justice and community change through connecting people, place and power. NFG organizes the field, develops leadership, and cultivates thought leadership among its national base of members and encourages the support of policies and practices that advance economic, racial and social justice. 0 0 222682 Democratizing Development Program (DDP). Following the hiring of a Senior Program Manager and rebranding in 2016, NFG's Democratizing Development program (formerly the Working Group on Housing Justice and Community Transformation), DDP offered an impressive range of programming and coordination to a broader audience of funders. Highlights of DDP's programming and events in 2017 include:- Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania (June 19-21)- Webinar: From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance (February 27)- Webinar: Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in this Political Moment (March 30)- Webinar: Systems Changes Towards Equity and Inclusion in the Midwest: Vision and Practical Grantmaking Steps (May 25)- Webinar: Building and Organizing Together: National Actions for Housing and Opportunity (October 5)- Webinar: City of Pittsburgh, The Heinz Endowments, and the p4 Sustainability Model: People, Planet, and Performance (November 7)- Webinar: Just and Equitable Rebuilding of Cities After Disasters (December 6) 319958 225000 Amplify Fund: In 2017, NFG worked closely with DDP core members Surdna Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Ford Foundation to establish a grantmaking program. NFG developed a partnership with the Common Counsel Foundation to host a pooled fund managed by NFG staff. In December 2017, NFG announced the Amplify Fund, which will help actualize the learning and strategy development work of the DDP by creating a vehicle for funders to participate in shared grantmaking. The Amplify Fund will implement a grantmaking strategy to support community power building in sites across the country over four years. To date, NFG has raised $9.625M to support Amplify's grantmaking, with a goal of raising a total of $17M. 318124 Funders for a Just Economy (FJE). In 2017, with new staff and member leadership, NFG's oldest working group, Funders for a Just Economy (FJE), grew its programming considerably. FJE organizes programming and activities where funders connect with one another to learn more about how to advance economic justice through supporting grassroots campaigns and organizations. Over 40 funders and nearly 20 field leaders attended FJE's May 2017 Policy Briefing, titled "The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back, and Pivot." Economic justice leaders shared their expertise and perspectives on the future of work and policy challenges and opportunities to advance workers' rights. Panelists and funders discussed new strategies to protect workers as employment arrangements, schedules, policies against collective bargaining, and other worker issues have led to precarious working conditions for many low-wage workers across the US.In early 2017, FJE began its "Working at the Intersections" project, which seeks to organize funders to address economic discrimination based on race, gender, and migration status. Also in 2017, FJE initiated its "Future of Work" project, in which it will map the landscape of current funding for strategies related to addressing the changing nature of work, identify opportunities for funders to align strategies, and prioritize FJE-sponsored learning opportunities for funders. In October 2017, FJE helped launch a new report, "New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers' Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence" which assesses economic indicators affecting the quality of life in the South and examines corporate strategies that are driving these changes. It presents some of the efforts underway in the region to improve the quality of economic opportunity through labor organizing and strengthening workers' rights, focusing on the southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The report also described new models for worker organizing in the face of significant challenges to collective bargaining, new worker scheduling arrangements and other ways that the changing nature of work is impacting low-wage workers. From November 6-8, 2017 FJE hosted a Learning Tour in Alabama, co-sponsored by National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Southern Progress. Over a dozen funders from across the U.S. gathered to meet with local and regional funders, community organizations, unions and worker centers to experience, appreciate and learn about the movement building strategies workers and communities are implementing to advocate for economic justice. Many sessions of the Alabama Learning Tour were live streamed over NFG's social media platforms, and our communications consultants are producing a mini-site that will feature multi-media reports, commentary, and stories of impact from the Learning Tour. 278005 Funders for Justice (FFJ). Founded in 2014, FFJ is a dynamic organizing space for grantmakers, funder collaboratives, donor networks, and affinity groups to connect with each other and with the movement for racial justice and police accountability across the country. In 2017, FFJ's network grew to over 450 individuals who learn about organizations in the field, connect with funder peers, and find thought leadership and other resources to help them integrate a social change lens to their grantmaking and funder organizing.On June 8, 2017 FFJ held its second national convening in New York City: Decriminalization and Community-Led Safety and Justice Models in Communities of Color. About 130 people attended, primarily funders, including many who were new to FFJ. The convening featured a dynamic program of panels and small group breakout sessions in which funders and field leaders alike discussed their visions for community safety and ways in which philanthropy can meet the urgent needs of the moment. Funders participating in FFJ have collectively committed over $25 million in grant dollars and donor organizing for racial justice and police accountability work since 2015. At FFJ's June 2017 convening, participating funders specifically made commitments of $10.4M. And since FFJ began, donors have pledged over $1.6 million through the fundersforjustice.org web site.In 2017 FFJ also launched an Advisors program a cohort of nine field leaders who will serve as a speakers bureau of thought leaders and writers, and provide guidance on FFJ's invest/divest campaign strategy. 853870 20500 30436 Other programs 1131875 20500 30436 1992639 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 46 0 1 14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 13 13 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 CA X Neighborhood Funders Group 5104446063 436 14th Street No 425 Oakland CA 94612 Alison Corwin Co-Chair 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Michael Brown Co-Chair 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Andrea Dobson Treasurer 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Amy Kenyon Secretary 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Lavastian Glenn Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Laura Livoti Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Sandra Witt Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Sobecki Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Carmen Rojas Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Marjona Jones Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Shona Chakravartty Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Amoretta Morris Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Emma Oppenheim Board Member 1.00 X 0 0 0 Dennis Quirin Executive Director 40.00 X 145600 0 8736 145600 0 8736 1 0 1 0 0 235125 4788284 5023409 Conference 900099 30436 30436 30436 3104 3104 5056949 30436 0 3104 X 225500 225500 20000 20000 145600 72800 43680 29120 744531 542765 152148 49618 54043 38509 11062 4472 146334 98648 38235 9451 4834 1365 3469 59435 59435 442251 391400 50851 4511 2636 1875 8078 5308 2770 15036 15036 29806 29806 116155 99207 16948 253141 252447 694 5284 5284 4689 4689 Other expenses: transfe 79694 79694 Dues and subscriptions 16138 860 15278 Meals 15134 11943 3191 Board Expenses 12803 2820 9983 18293 146737 -128444 2421290 1992639 335990 92661 1776104 1884849 995300 3484479 9371 34881 27958 18344 11406 9614 0 3500 2792181 5417323 105216 75424 117417 136692 222633 212116 X 643267 1167787 1926281 4037420 2569548 5205207 2792181 5417323 2635659 0 X X 0 1 X 1 0 X 913009 1134305 1896269 2786081 5023409 11753073 913009 1134305 1896269 2786081 5023409 11753073 6799828 4953245 12 12 14 1161 3104 4303 4786 899 1360 7045 11764421 393284 0.42100 0.51350 X 27958 18344 9614 9614 X 5056949 0 5056949 0 5056949 2421290 0 2421290 0 2421290 Part X, Line 2: For the year ended December 31, 2017, NFG has documented its consideration of FASB ASC 740-10, Income Taxes, that provides guidance for reporting uncertainty in income taxes and has determined that no material uncertain tax positions qualify for either recognition or disclosure in the financial statements. 1 Common Counsel Foundation 1624 Franklin Street Suite 1022 Oakland CA 94612 943214166 501(c)3 225000 NFG is one of the donors to the Amplify Fund and made a 4-year grant of $900,000 to Common Counsel for the Amplify Fund in 2017. Of this amount, the first payment of $225,000 was disbursed in 2017. The remaining $675,000 is pledged in $225,000 annual payments planned for 2018, 2019 and 2020. These payments are conditional upon NFG raising sufficient funds each year. 1 1 2017 Discount Award 1 20000 X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dennis Quirin Executive Director 145600 0 0 0 0 0 8736 0 0 0 154336 0 0 0 Common Counsel Foundation Fiscal Sponsor and Manager of Amplify Fund 900000 Laura Livoti is a CEO of Common Counsel Foundation and serves on NFG's Board of Directors. Dennis Quirin is a President of NFG and serves on Common Councel's Board and has a seat on Amplify Fund steering committee. 0 Schedule L Part IV Common Counsel Foundation is a public grantmaking foundation. Through a competitive bid, NFG selected Common Counsel Foundation as its public foundation partner for a grantmaking project launched in 2017, the Amplify Fund. NFG fundraises for the fund, and designs and implements the funds' programming. Common Counsel fiscally sponsors and manages the funds contributed by the donors, and its board will approve and disburse the grants recommended by the Amplify Fund's steering committee.NFG is one of the donors to the Amplify Fund, and made a 4-year grant of $900,000 to Common Counsel for the Amplify Fund in 2017. Of this amount, the first payment of $225,000 was disbursed in 2017, and the remaining $675,000 is pledged in $225,000 annual payments planned for 2018, 2019, and 2020. These payments are conditional upon NFG raising sufficient funds each year.Laura Livoti, Common Counsel Foundation's CEO, serves on NFG's board. Dennis Quirin, President of NFG, serves on Common Counsel Foundation's board. They each recuse themselves from board votes related to the Amplify partnership. Dennis Quirin also has a seat on Common Counsel Foundation's Amplify Fund steering committee. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 The organization has institutional members. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a The Organization's members nominate and elect the board of directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The Form 990 was prepared by the outside accountants. A draft of the Form 990 was reviewed and approved by the audit committee. Board members were given a final copy of the Form 990 to review. Once reviewed, the executive director signed and submitted the return to the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Officers and directors are required to sign an acknowledgement each year that they have received the conflict of interest policy. Each officer and director is asked to notify the Board of any conflict of interest. Officers and directors abstain from any decision in which they may have a conflict of interest. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a Compensation paid to the executive director is evaluated on an annual basis by the officers (co-chairs and treasurer) of the Board of Directors. Compensation is based upon the level of skill required for the position, comparison of compensation to similar positions in the non-profit industry, and an evaluation of the individual's achievements during the year. Determination of the compensation made by the officers of the Board is recommended to the full Board and documented as part of the budget process. No other officers or key employees were employed during the year. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The Organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request at the Organization's offices. Form 990, Part IX, line 11g Payroll service fees: Program service expenses 0. Management and general expenses 2,233. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 2,233. Other professional fees: Program service expenses 391,400. Management and general expenses 48,618. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 440,018. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e The Organization records shared expenses in the management and general category and allocates the amount to the other functional categories on a monthly basis. As a result, other miscellaneous expenses consist of a negative amount in the management and general category and a positive amount in the program services category. Total allocated expenses for the year 2017 were $137,550.