2024-04-29T21:38:32Z 2022-12-31 990EZ 2022-01-01 842719356 INSTITUTE FOR THE QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF INCLUSION DIVERSITY AND INST 3238288258 42 Lower Windflower Way Williamstown MA 01267 Jude Higdon COO 3238288258 2024-04-29 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.qsideinstitute.org X X 113038 41327 57633 14078 113038 97235 9635 106870 6168 5522 11690 5522 11690 5522 11690 5522 11690 Research Data4Justice Conference is a research-to-action conference that serves approximately 150 national scholars wo arena of data science and social justice. 25000 Datathon4Justice is weekend-long hackathon-style program for young and career-transitional data scientists to a suite of common questions to "swarm" on data science and solutions. 12000 The Stopping Trafficking and Modern Slavery (STAMP) Lab is a research lab focused on disrupting modern by building models for identifying patterns of financial transactions that may indicate trafficking. 15000 52000 Chad Topaz President 5.00 0 Jude Higdon Secretary and Treasurer 5.00 0 Derek Kaufman Member at Large 2.00 0 Sharifa Wright Member at Large 0.00 0 Haydee Lindo Member at Large 1.00 0 false false false false false false false false MA Jude Higdon 42 Lower Windflower Way Williamstown MA 01267 3238288258 false false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 1525 43679 36351 60238 141793 109030 26789 52799 188618 0 1525 152709 63140 113037 330411 0 0 0 330411 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1525 152709 63140 113037 330411 X 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Dear IRS staff, I am writing to you in my role as the COO for the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, DBA QSIDE Institute, EIN 84-2719356, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in Massachusetts. I have had significant interactions and correspondence with the IRS since our founding in April of 2019 about our tax filings. While I have tried in good faith to meet our organizations obligations, it has recently become clear to me that: Although I have filed a tax return, form 990-EZ, each year since our founding, our internal accounting fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) was misaligned with the fiscal year on record with the IRS (January 1 - December 31), making our filing inaccurate and causing confusion; and I have not met our obligation to fill out forms 990-EZ Schedules A and B each year, which was an oversight on my part. These oversights came into clear focus in November, 2023, when, for the first time, our organization was in a position to hire a professional accountant. Upon getting clarity from our accountant regarding the issue in early November, I promptly called the IRS for guidance on how to rectify these issues. On Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, I was instructed by the IRS advisor to file form 3115 to change our fiscal year and to file just for calendar year/fiscal year on file with the IRS for 2022, and then to await further instructions. I have recalculated our tax documents for every year since our founding in 2019 to align with the IRS fiscal year on file for our organization, including schedule A for each year and schedule B for 2020, 2021, and 2022 we had no single donors in the amount of $5000 or greater in our first year of operations. I attach these documents for your review and, I hope, reconciliation of our delinquent filings. Also attached please find an executed form 3115 changing our fiscal year to July 1 - June 30; given that we work with many institutions of higher learning, this makes sense for us to align with this fiscal year. I would ask your forbearance in assessing fees; I honestly believed I was being responsive to the previous IRS correspondence, but I clearly did not read carefully enough given the weight of my duties as the COO for a struggling non-profit startup. We founded the organization during the pandemic; the chaos of that moment made the startup quite difficult on all fronts. Additionally, this is my first time helping to run a nonprofits financials and accounting. I did, in fact, try several times to hire a professional accounting firm, but found it difficult to find someone who would work with a startup non-profit with limited resources. I made several key mistakes, but we have now begun a productive relationship with an accounting firm; we are eager to complete our previous obligations for filings, change our fiscal year, and move forward with a renewed commitment, and the professional support needed, to ensure this does not repeat.