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SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC

SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,668,646 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($980,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$991k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$629k
3/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Society to Benefit Everyone Inc does

Mission

Common Good shifts power from big business and distant government back to communities, where we see what's needed and care enough to support each individual in reaching their full potential, by ensuring that everyone has enough to eat, a place to live, and guaranteed work. In a Common Good Economy, we gather locally to decide for ourselves our funding priorities -- with plenty of money to fund those decisions. Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Truth Telling Project: to support and implement grassroots, community-centered truth-telling and reparations processes to achieve Black liberation and BIPOC solidarity, amplify traditionally silenced and disenfranchised voices, and abolish white supremacy.

    $745,674 spentof which $82,750 as grants$170,254 earned by the program
    49% of program spending

  2. Common Good Democratic Economics System: We design, promote, and support software, strategies, and contracts for a community-centered democratic economy.

    $163,175 spentof which $12,190 as grants$-22,103 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

  3. Solar Subscriber Management System: We design and maintain software for managing subscriptions to cooperatively-owned community solar electric arrays, as a way to leverage more participation in our Common Good Democratic Economics System (see above)

    $137,150 spent$274,161 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

  4. Mutual Aid Medford And Somerville: Taking collective responsibility for getting everyone through times of crisis.

    $116,268 spentof which $112,170 as grants$179,194 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

  5. Nonprofit Accountability Group:promoting racial equity, education, and environmental justice through the arts.

    $105,550 spent$124,730 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

  6. North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival: A celebration of the artistic, agricultural and cultural bounty of the North Quabbin region.

    $54,783 spentof which $5,353 as grants$74,315 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

  7. Kibilio Community and Farm: an intergenerational, intentional community dedicated to embodied healing, and reparative, ecological, and reproductive justice, working cooperatively toward educating for indigenous land justice and ecological balance.

    $92,099 spent$16,470 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

  8. Ile Orunmila Oshun: Empowering people through spiritual activism to access earth-based wisdom, spiritual guidance, herbally based remedies, and somatic practices, the tools needed to pursue their "freedom dreams".

    $47,000 spent$21,759 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

  9. Ubuntu Freedom: Building self-governance and freedom by creating a global society based on an understanding of our connection to each other, the earth, and the whole of nature.

    $23,750 spent$10,000 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

  10. North End Little Pantries: Combatting food insecurity in North Hartford, CT.

    $9,635 spentof which $45 as grants$10,104 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

  11. reparationWorks: Creating a thriving, lush Philadelphia through the sacred power of reparations.

    $8,373 spentof which $33 as grants$8,911 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

  12. Reentry Community Charitable farm: Supporting all who wish to return to the land to find freedom through agriculture and communal land stewardship.

    $2,375 spent$2,500 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  13. Shelburne Falls Community Orchard: An edible landscape of fruit trees, berries, herbs and pollinator plants and a food resource for local neighbors w/food insecurity, providing a welcoming space for climate education, art, music, and connecting to nature.

    $2,121 spent
    0% of program spending

  14. Montague Neighbors: Helping adults over sixty residing in the town of Montague to age in place with dignity and independence by offering volunteer services, access to information and community connections.

    $2,004 spentof which $4 as grants$1,498 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  15. Haven's Harvest: offering timely and reliable surplus food pick-up and delivery in the New Haven, Connecticut area, connecting businesses with community sites through the transfer of high quality excess food. Recovered food is a community resource. Don't let good food go to waste!

    $1,900 spent$2,000 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  16. ZEAL Co-Op: Cultivating emergent creative community development strategies to cooperatively own and steward the means of our cultural production.

    $1,000 spent$28,500 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  17. Food Fund: supporting members in helping others who are food insecure.

    $62 spent$1,430 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  18. Susie King Taylor Square Foundation: Harnessing strength in numbers to influence public opinion in a positive way for all its citizens on the Georgia coast.

    $25 spentof which $25 as grants
    0% of program spending

  19. On Native Land: Promoting awareness of our colonial settler history and its impact on Indigenous peoples of Leverett, MA.

    $10 spentof which $10 as grants
    0% of program spending

  20. Albita's Gift Fund: Providing a means for communities to support local businesses.

    $0 spent$2,790 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

  21. Homegrown Maroons: Providing respite and reconnection to nature, to deepen a shared understanding of our relationship to and vision for freedom.

    $0 spent$10,001 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 21 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,512,954.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($203k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($373k)2022 Revenue 577 ($1.2M) Expenses 871 ($1.2M) Net assets 103 ($384k)2023 Revenue 140 ($285k) Expenses 289 ($384k) Net assets 92 ($344k)2024 Revenue 855 ($1.7M) Expenses 529 ($704k) Net assets 361 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 488 ($991k) Expenses 1179 ($1.6M) Net assets 169 ($629k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (488)Expenses (1179)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $962k to $2.7M (+184%).

$943k
$981k
$962k
$2.7M
$975k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 0% · 2023 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

61% of SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’21
$11k
’22
−$99k
’23
$1.0M
’24
−$578k
’25
4.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

William Spademan

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed54455
Joined·+0+0+1+3
No longer listed·1003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18 → $60k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
3
4
2
4
1

8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC.

59%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 76% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $38k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.

NH
ID

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−58% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

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Nationally

Community Food Project Inc79%Prime Produce Limited79%Susu Community Farm Inc78%Kindness Farm78%Eastie Farm Inc78%The Goodenough Community77%Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc77%Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC?
SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,668,646 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($980,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,668,646 in grants to SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC?
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY TO BENEFIT EVERYONE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing