2024-11-14T17:28:01-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 475322239 WHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS INC WHIT 2037808890 1253 Whitney Avenue Hamden CT 06517 Robert Sheiman Strategic Director 2037808890 2024-11-14 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z WCC Robert Sheiman 14 Webb Street Hamden CT 06517 378321 0 X www.whitneyvilleculturalcommons.org X 2015 CT We preserve and enhance places of communal and historic value by providing public spaces, tools, and knowledge as shared resources to support a thriving community socially, culturally, and economically. We envision a future where every community has valuable resources preserved for perpetual public use, with just and equitable access to enhance the quality of life for all. We: Preserve Historic Places: Steward historic properties in our trust with a commitment to preserving buildings and natural environments as part of the cultural landscape of the site. Develop Social Capital: Nuture communal relationships as host to diverse civic forums, public and private social events, and spiritual and cultural traditions. Champion Artistic Creation: Cultivate, celebrate and showcase artistic endeavors of all kings. Stimulate Economic Opportunity: Develop local organizations, individuals, and start-ups through coworking opportunities and the provision of shared information, materials and services. 8 8 5 10 0 0 16360 37769 281267 340552 0 0 0 0 297627 378321 4833 0 0 0 99976 124674 0 0 25 209554 493148 314363 617822 -16736 -239501 1418981 1111933 1025007 957460 393974 154473 Our mission is to preserve and enhance places of communal and historic value by providing public spaces, tools, and knowledge as shared resources to support a thriving community - socially, culturally, and economically. We envision a future where every community has valuable resources preserved for perpetual public use, with just and equitable access to enhance the quality of life for all. We: Preserve Historic Places: Steward historic properties in our trust with a commitment to preserving buildings and natural environments as part of the cultural landscape of the site. Develop Social Capital: Nurture communal relationships as host to diverse civic forums, public and private social events, and spiritual and cultural traditions. Champion Artistic Creation: Cultivate, celebrate, and showcase artistic endeavors of all kinds. Stimulate Economic Opportunity: Develop local organizations and individuals through co-working opportunities and the provision of shared info, material, and service. 0 0 523565 2236 56487 As part of our historic preservation program, we purchased 1247-1253 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT, 06517, a National Historic Landmark, which includes the Whitneyville United Church of Christ built in 1834 and its Church House built in 1924, and continued its legacy as a house of worship while continuing to adapt its use to a broader Community Resources Center and the facility in which we run our other programs. With the shutdown from the pandemic continuing to lift, both the historic church and the church house became more used for the rest of our programs, allowing the historic preservation to continue. We wrapped up our partnership with the Episcopal Church of St Paul and St James in New Haven, at 57 Olive Street, letting them operate their own community resources center, with the WCC ceasing to manage any of the operations at that location. Preservation projects on the Whitneyville Untied Church of Christ continued to completion with Bob Zoni Inc Historic Preservation company helping us to complete the exterior restoration for that building. 39476 762 128354 Our assembly space program continued to allow use of the historic properties in our trust for broad use for community events, nonprofits, and social gatherings. The Red Cross of America ran Mobile Blood Drives, weekly and without fail, at our facilities throughout the year. Social gathering continued to grow from the previous year, exceeding pre-pandemic levels and proving the vital necessity of social infrastructure for our community through high demand. We hosted roughly one thousand seven hundred and fifty community, nonprofit, and social gatherings during 2023. 22097 413 69133 Our Coworking Program provides a dynamic shared and private working environment that brings together startups, seasoned professionals, remote researches, freelancers, and solopreneurs, in a public space where they interact more regularly with each other and their community with lower overhead to insure viability of their small businesses, and to give new entrepreneurs a chance to make it in and a reason to stay in our local economy. Our Partner Coworking Organizations: CEIO, Black Infinity Collective, Public Allies CT, Students for Educational Justice, Real Clear Foundation, Stop Solitary, Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers, and our solo-preneurs, did coworking actiivities in our facilities utilizing both communal spaces and private offices. 18710 372 63174 Our Arts and Culture Program provides studio space for artists, venues for performances and showcases and cultural events, space for arts classes and rehearsals, and tools for artistic productions, produced both in partnership with artists and offering our services as tools for artists to produce their own events. It also provides home for culturally significant programming from sub-cultures across Connecticut, including Christian worship & artistic services across denominations, including Pentecostals, UCCs, Episcopalians, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and more, and other significant worship and cultural services from across faith and traditional backgrounds. This year, both our churches and arts programming exceeded pre-pandemic levels proving the vital necessity of social infrastructure for arts & culture in GNH. 13331 151 21282 Our Materials and Information Library program allows us to offer a curated repository of items and information for managed public use, both onsite and offsite. It includes books, tables, chairs, multi-media equipment, office supplies, kitchen tools, lawn care tools, and more. It also includes our databases of information about the historic property, Whitneyville, and Greater New Haven, allowing us to slowly build a representation of our community that can let us help people find services and resources that they need that we don't provide. As we get repeated requests for objects to be available for use while at the WCC, we acquire them and add them to our library of objects. This year we provided information curation services around nonprofit formation and business planning to The People's Place of Waterbury, a nonprofit incubator and accelerator. We also provided information curation services around historic property adaptation to First Church of Christ Woodbridge, the sister church of our property, constructed by the same builders from the same plans in 1832. 618 12 2121 We produce, on our own and in partnership with members of the community and other organizations, classes and workshops designed to offering education to the community at large, in any topic or area of interest that serves the benefit of our community members. 32659 535 86577 617797 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 CT X X Robert Sheiman 2037808890 1253 Whitney Ave Hamden CT 06517 X Tamberlaine Harris Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 Rebecca Mandell President and Member of the Board of Directors 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Andrew Marchant-Shapiro Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Addys Castillo Member of the Board of Directors 2 0 X 0 0 0 Denya McGee Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 Brendan Smith Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Roslyn Sotero Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X 0 0 0 David Brancati Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors 1 0 X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37769 0 37769 Assembly Space Use 561210 128354 128354 0 0 Coworking 561000 69133 69133 0 0 Arts & Culture 711310 63174 63174 0 0 Historic Preservation 712100 56488 56488 0 0 Materials & Information Library 519200 21282 21282 0 0 2121 2121 0 0 340552 0 0 0 0 0 0 378321 340552 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115037 115037 0 0 0 0 9637 9637 0 0 595 595 0 0 0 0 0 0 1372 1347 25 9962 9962 11559 11559 0 0 383050 383050 58 58 0 0 0 0 38029 38029 0 0 16692 16692 31731 31731 Reconciliation Discrepancy 100 100 0 0 617822 617797 0 25 469134 178779 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1050000 116846 949847 933154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1418981 1111933 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637919 575888 372100 372200 0 0 14988 9372 1025007 957460 X 0 0 0 0 393974 154473 393974 154473 1418981 1111933 -239501 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 35073 43834 283659 16357 90510 469433 224951 147367 285589 281350 287812 1227069 260024 191201 569248 297707 378322 1696502 1696502 260024 191201 569248 297707 378322 1696502 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 399000 0 399000 651000 0 116846 534154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 933154 590 Deposits 7338 CT Income Tax 1269 CT PFML 175 9372 1253 Whitney LLC Business Owner on BoD, Previous Owner of Property Mortgage on 1253 Whitney Avenue X 693519 575888 0 1 1 575888 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Board members were emailed a drafted copy of the finalized version of the 990 and asked to review the document for correctness. They were given 48 hours to give reviews and corrections, after which all corrections and edits were adopted, and the 990 was submitted. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c At the annual meeting in February, board members were asked to fill out a conflict of interest forms and those forms were collected. Additionally, in November, updates and resubmission of the conflict of interest forms was asked for. Conflict of interest forms are reviewed by the President and the CEO, and any conflicts that matter in the course of business result in the board member being asked to recuse themselves. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 These are available upon direct request to WCC staff or board via email or phone call.