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| IRS990EZ/PrimaryExemptPurposeTxt | 0 | BasicNeeds US seeks to improve access to effective mental health services and psychosocial supports for people and families affected by mental illness in resource poor settings around the world. We develop and promote strategies to enable them to live and work in healthy communities. We provide demonstration programs and training strategies for community health workers to promote self-help groups, peer support and other community partnerships. Our work continues in partnership with BasicNeeds programs and other collaborators in low resource settings in Africa and South Asia. |
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| IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt | 0 | The Kenya Farming grants continue to support livelihoods (micro-grants) and self-help group training for women and youth in small holder farming families in the Bungoma Highlands in western Kenya. We made two grants in 2020 because of delays in 2020 due to COVID ($20,254 from a prior year ECOM grant and $19,308 from the current year grant). |
| IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt | 1 | BasicNeeds provided COVID preparedness and relief grants for our partners in Ghana and Kenya. These were for funds received from the Skoll Foundation this year ($75000). One of the grants to Ghana was sent on 9/14/20 and yet was wired incorrectly by the US Bank. It was refunded in late September and re-sent in October ($37,500 in tax year 2021). The bank assumed responsibility for the fees. We hope to avoid late year grants in future years. |
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| IRS990ScheduleA/Form990ScheduleAPartVIGrp/ExplanationTxt | 0 | In 2020, we revised our accounting methods and installed a new version of Quickbooks as well as implemented on-line reporting. In the process we discovered that we had not been reporting indirect public support properly for this support test in line 5F. BasicNeeds US has received many small public support donations and over the last five year all of our larger source of support (>2% of line 11F) have come from publicly supported organizations such as the ECOM Foundation (01-0775179) and the Skoll Foundation (77-0528216). In 2016 and 17 we also received funds from a public charity (Southwest Solutions) in Detroit for training and staff services under a county government grant. Since we now are clearer about indirect public support. we are reporting $0 for contributions (other than a...publicly supported organization)" in Line 5(f) for the period from 2016-2020. This is the reason that the public support percentage is changing significantly from the previous year. We will institute better tracking of the tax status of our donors. |
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 0 | Bank Wires ($156), Business registration ($54) and PY adjustment (-$125.13) to reconcile 2019 closing cash balance in 990 to bank account balance. We have updated accounting software and reporting to correct for these errors in the future. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 1 | Check #1048, for $1000 to the College for Behavioral Health Leadership, a 501c(3) leadership development organization (FEI - 77-0588145), was written on 9/28/2020. It was reported on the 990 for the 2019 Tax Year. The support was to sponsor a Leadership Summit in the Fall on community development and collaboration. It cleared on 11/19/2020. We have included it in 2020 as other changes in net assets since this is on a cash basis. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 2 | Due to incorrect bank wire from our US Bank, a $37500 Program grant for COVID relief to Ghana was made on 9/14, we reported the error, it was refunded minus fees on 9/24, then charged to the account and resent again to Ghana in October 2021 (the next Tax year). The bank also credited fees that were a result of their error. |
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 2 | Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 |
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