2015-10-13T14:03:53-07:00 2014-12-31 Beverly Orr P O Box 19367 Washington DC 20036 990EZ 2014-01-01 222543558 Commonwealth Foundation Inc COMM 6175474474 186 Hampshire Street Cambridge MA 02139 Richard Healey Director 6175474474 2015-10-07 1 Beverly Orr P27414441 2023612814 2015-10-05 2014 2016-02-25 16:41:14Z X www.comw.org X X 78249 X 51000 27249 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 78249 0 0 0 20039 9800 0 58112 87951 -9702 53277 0 43575 X 54027 43575 0 0 0 0 54027 43575 750 0 53277 43575 Research and education about public policy issues. HIP Project -- Haiti Illumination Project is committed to changing how Haiti is understood, especially in popular imagination, actively demystifying Haiti beyond the stereotypes. 0 24929 Other projects and educational activities on public policy issues 0 60383 85312 Charles Knight President/Co-Director 5 0 0 0 Neta Crawford Treasurer 5 0 0 0 SM Miller Clerk 5 0 0 0 Mark Kyen Director 5 0 0 0 Meg Gage Director 5 0 0 0 Richard Healey Director 5 0 0 0 Guy Molyneux Director 5 0 0 0 Cynthia Ward Director 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Richard Healey 186 Hampshire Street Cambridge MA 02139 6175474474 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 250489 255514 162000 115779 51000 834782 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250489 255514 162000 115779 51000 834782 273025 561757 4 1 128 18 151 834933 49758 0.67282 0.7755 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Communications expense;3780|Travel and conferences;46430|Books and research;1339|Office expenses;6563^Total;58112^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Accounts payable $750 The Commonwealth Foundation received an approval for extension to file to August 15, 2015. Our record should reflect that a second extension was filed in a timely fashion, but the preparer inadvertently mailed the second extension without a signature. We were not made aware of this error until September 21, 2015. We promptly worked to finish our 2014 Form 990-EZ and at the recommendation of the IRS, we chose to file electronically. We believe this clerical error by the preparer should not penalize the organization, which is a very small, under-staffed not-for-profit. In the future, all filings, including extensions, will be filed electronically, in order to avoid this from happening in the future. We take the responsibility of filing this informational return very seriously and we are embarrassed that this error happened. As it was not an intentional mistake, we hope the IRS will look upon this request for abatement of penalties, favorably.