Civic Intelligence

Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc

EIN 82-3012805 • 501(c)3 • Hinsdale, MA

Profile

Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. believes that economic participation and ownership is key to the empowerment of our most vulnerable community members. This type of participatory cooperative model aspires to true equity and justice, where everyone has a voice in their work, housing, local, state and national government and can easily access basic needs that extends to social, educational and artistic endeavors. Organized and led by members with lived experience of poverty, projects include co-op business development, community owned real-estate, co-op housing, food justice, mutual aid, labor organizing, youth and wellness programming, and a community center

164 Skyline TrailHinsdale, MA 01235

www.rootsandmustardseeds.com

Siviq Scores

Precomputed percentiles relative to similar nonprofits. These scores are descriptive rather than judgmental.

Liabilities / Assets

76th percentile

0.07x

Higher debt load relative to assets than 76% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2024

Liabilities / Revenue

83rd percentile

0.10x

Higher debt load relative to revenue than 83% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2024

Net Margin

46th percentile

0.0%

Higher net margin than 46% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2024

Top Officer Pay

93rd percentile

$44,044

Higher top officer pay than 93% of similar nonprofits.

Top officer pay equals 19.0% of source-year revenue.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2024

Asset Growth

91st percentile

84%

Faster asset growth than 91% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2023 to 2024

Revenue Growth

85th percentile

53%

Faster revenue growth than 85% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2023 to 2024

Assets

Up

$371,504

Up $170,000 (+84%) from 2023

Liabilities

Down

$24,200

Down $2,800 (-10%) from 2023

Net Assets

Up

$347,304

Up $172,800 (+99%) from 2023

Revenue

Up

$231,240

Up $80,491 (+53%) from 2023

Expenses

Up

$231,240

Up $90,072 (+64%) from 2023

Net Income

Down

$0

Down $9,581 (-100%) from 2023

Trend Graphs

Balance Sheet Trend

Grouped bars show assets, liabilities, and net assets across loaded filings.

$400K$300K$200K$100K$0Assets 2019: $1,897Liabilities 2019: $0Net Assets 2019: $1,8972019Assets 2020: $2,807Liabilities 2020: $0Net Assets 2020: $2,8072020Assets 2021: $170,609Liabilities 2021: $6,250Net Assets 2021: $164,3592021Assets 2022: $169,323Liabilities 2022: $4,400Net Assets 2022: $164,9232022Assets 2023: $201,504Liabilities 2023: $27,000Net Assets 2023: $174,5042023Assets 2024: $371,504Liabilities 2024: $24,200Net Assets 2024: $347,3042024

Highlighted filing

2024

Assets$371,504
Liabilities$24,200
Net Assets$347,304

Operations Trend

Revenue, expenses, and net income by year, with the latest filing highlighted.

$300K$200K$100K$0Revenue 2019: $44,509Expenses 2019: $42,612Net Income 2019: $1,8972019Revenue 2020: $45,594Expenses 2020: $44,684Net Income 2020: $9102020Revenue 2021: $280,245Expenses 2021: $273,436Net Income 2021: $6,8092021Revenue 2022: $103,729Expenses 2022: $100,315Net Income 2022: $3,4142022Revenue 2023: $150,749Expenses 2023: $141,168Net Income 2023: $9,5812023Revenue 2024: $231,240Expenses 2024: $231,240Net Income 2024: $02024

Highlighted filing

2024

Revenue$231,240
Expenses$231,240
Net Income$0

Filings

Latest Detailed Filing

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Filing Snapshot
Filing Period
Sep 1, 2021 to Aug 31, 2022
Signed
Mar 12, 2023
Return Version
2021v4.0
Gross Receipts
$103,729
Mission and Program Overview

Mission

Co-op Development, Transportation and Solidarity Economy Initiatives

Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. believes that economic participation and ownership is key to the empowerment of our most vulnerable community members. This type of participatory cooperative model aspires to true equity and justice, where everyone has a voice in their work, housing, local, state and national government and can easily access basic needs that extends to social, educational and artistic endeavors. Organized and led by members with lived experience of poverty, projects include co-op business development, community owned real-estate, co-op housing, food justice, mutual aid, labor organizing, youth and wellness programming, and a community center

Program Services

DescriptionGrantsExpenses
The Transportation Program provides critical rides to vulnerable people needing to get to new employment, as well as medical, social service and therapeutic programming. The program continues to be run by a dedicated volunteer group who receive a stipend for time committed to the program. The service is vital to an area that has very limited bus service. The program normally serves 120 - 170 vulnerable community members on a regular basis through out the year, but this recent fiscal year that number increased to 203 vulnerable community members as the program expanded to partner with the Jewish Services of the Berkshires to ensure new Afghan refugees who moved into Pittsfield, MA could access needed transportation for free in their first eight months adapting to a new life here.$48,655$46,865
Community Programming includes Mercado De Vida, a twice weekly free market for vulnerable families serving up to 300 community members per week, many new immigrants. It partners with our urban garden, Madre Jardin, which teaches youth and adults to grow food together, to which families can take to their own homes with left overs being donated to Mercado De Vida. Corazonidos Community School is a 4x's weekly bi-lingual youth summer camp held at two of our parks and two of our housing projects, providing a Montessori - whole child model for youth ages pre-school through teen years. It offers tables with art, building tools, language arts, science, math, and musical instruments and physical education games. In this past summer session, it served 98 youth,many living in Pittsfield's most impoverished neighborhoods. this past summer session. It has concurrently worked with the school department this past year to enter the school system in FY 23/24 as Corazonidos Safe Sites in Schools. Fronteras Comunes continues it's bi-lingual social justice art zine collective which includes 18 members with a goal of media created by and for community while training youth and adults in translation, journalism, editing and publication lay-out and now offers translation services to fellow organizations. In FY 21/22, we opened a community center where we could expand our community development projects to include Mujeres Moviendo Montanas, an immigrant women's empowerment group for women working through trauma, English to Spanish classes twice weekly serving 37 community members up to date, weekly art classes, a once monthly singing group for families, weekly youth Latin dance classes, warming and cooling center, three hot meals a week, free massage by a licensed masseuse, once a month wellness clinic, while hosting community educational workshops. With donations from community we were able to also offer direct aid to families in crisis, to support back bills, an increasingly looming issue in our city where rent and food inflation is causing much displacement among low income residents.$24,339$24,339
Community Owned Real-estate - We've had a long standing goal of modeling a community owned and run community center here in Pittsfield, MA, where we as community members would co-share the running of the building, creating and designing its programming. The building would also serve impoverished groups/people starting businesses who would pay for space using a sliding scale model. This dream was made a reality last year thanks to a donor who gave us the purchase price for a downtown building at the nexus of two of our most impoverished neighborhoods, giving community members living there a central space to jump-start their dreams. Currently we serve one BIPOC start-up who is utilizing a small commercial kitchen area and a few local community members co-sharing the middle space for community workshops and social programming. The upstairs apartment is offered as affordable housing at 50% market rate or $650/month. Our main community programming is still being run from an interim space as the largest section of the building is needing rehab as it was a former bar in disrepair. We are so excited to recommission the commercial kitchen in the bar for the 17 member Latina led immigrant chef producer co-op, La Cocineras Latinas, who we work with that desperately needs a commercial kitchen to better serve our community with delicious cultural cuisine. We are currently awaiting community preservation grant funds to rehabilitate many parts of the building as well as a Mass Development grant to outfit the commercial kitchen. We are very excited to see how the building will serve vulnerable community members in these next years, especially those who need rental space that couldn't otherwise access it due to cost.$20,264$18,611
Our Co-op Business Development program includes three worker co-ops and one producer co-op in development. At 47 participants, all members are at or below the poverty level with 44 members being people of color. Included is Rose & Cole's Transport, Berkshire Seamstresses (now called Magge Sadoway Immigrant Cooperative), The Handy Man Co-op and La Cocineras Latinas. All participants have completed the first stage of development called assess and feasibility. Members will continue through implementation/governance, sustainability and growth phases of development these next two years. The majority of our funding is though a subcontract with Cooperative Development Institute which is derived from a USDA grant for socially disadvantaged groups. CDI trains our volunteer co-op development staff through a Train the Trainers program so that we can provide hands on support all the while CDI also interacts with our groups for additional technical assistance. Co-op housing development is still in it's very early stages. In the past year, we have increased our mutual aid support to vulnerable teams as they seek to navigate funding options, as lack of start-up capital is the greatest impedance to our very low income teams making progress forward. In FY21/22 we have supported groups access three small but vital grants that have opened up post pandemic as a means to better support marginalized groups starting businesses. We will continue this trend in FY 22/23. CO-OP HOUSING - With limited equity co-op housing as our goal, a diminishing lease that acts as an equity builder for families living in multifamily residences is a hopeful prospect. We have 18 families on the waiting list, five of whom have improved their credit scores from a poor rating to average or even good, as they prepare to co-own/co-manage their shared housing We are outreaching to local donors for support around the initial start-up costs as traditional co-op housing demands a 20% down-payment, a difficult barrier for our families. Our co-op housing program runs a once a month educational forum to help our community learn more about co-op housing as local and state-wide grants are opening up. The co-op housing project is still completely volunteer run.$10,500$10,500
Compensation and Service Providers

Employees

NameTitleFull / Part TimeBaseOtherTotal
Michael HitchcockPresident And Transportation Providor, Stipend Provided For DrivingFT$16,390-$16,390
Nicole FecteauTreasurer And Program Development Director, Stipend ProvidedFT$1,788-$1,788
Rae LangsdaleClerk-$0--
Anaelisa JacobsenDirectorPT$0--
Terry MooreDirectorPT$0--
Mariam OrengoDirectorPT$0--
Maria EncaladaDirectorPT$0--
Pavel UrangoDirector-$0--
Javier Luengo-GarridoDirector-$0--
Akil VicksDirector-$0--
Maria AriasDirectorPT$0--
Tim O'DonellAdvisory Director-$0--
Anthony BarnabaAdvisory Board Director-$0--
Filing and Contact Details

Filer

Filer Name
Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc
EIN
82-3012805
Phone
4133452794
Address
164 Skyline Trail, Hinsdale, MA 01235

Signing Officer

Name
Nicole Fecteau
Title
Treasurer
Phone
4138002955
Signed
2023-03-12
Supplemental Narrative

Additional Explanations

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10

$4,736 - Fiduciary payment to Maggie Sadoway Immigrant Co-op, one of the worker co-op teams we work with. They received a grant to help them learn more about how to support Latino community members with problem gambling. Funded through Massachusetts Health Resources. $1500 - stipend given to four youth leaders working in the urban garden, Madre Jardin, to support scholastic goals - funded through the New England Grassroots GROW grant. $5,819 - Direct Aid to vulnerable families in crisis. Money utilized to provide back rent, back utility bills, transport assistance, and car repair. Funded through donations. $1,230 - allotment to vulnerable member chefs in worker co-op teams to purchase materials to cook for community events, funded through the Markham Nathan grant.

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16

Transportation Provider Expenses, Commercial Car Insurance - $2,123, Van Loan - $2,105, Gas Expenditure - $3,548, Transportation phone service - $1,917, Vehicle Repair - $2,373 Total - $12,066 Any Other Expenses not mentioned - Public Computer Purchase (used computer) $260, Purchase of checks, $55.00, Event Permits - $379 Total - $694 COMBINED TOTAL EXPENSES - $12,760

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20

Paid off an additional $2,105 of the Transport Program van loan, leaving $400 remaining balance and increasing the equity to $7,400. We continue to have a transport provider credit card for car repairs and gas in the amount of $4000 which stands as a liability. The difference in equity and liability would stand at $3,400.

Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24

As of our end of year fiscal report 21/22, only $400 was remaining to pay off on the Toyota Sienna van, leaving us $7,400 in equity according to Kelly Blue Book value. During FY 21 we paid off the van loan in the amount of $2,105, increasing access to it's equity by that amount.

Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26

2011 Toyota Sienna Loan - remaining balance end of fiscal year 2020/21 - $2,250 2011 Toyota Sienna Loan - remaining balance end of fiscal year 2021/22 - $400 Van as Asset - Kelly Blue Book, $8000 - $400 remaining balance - $7,600 in asset/equity. Credit Card liability - FY 2020/2021 it was $4000 Now FY 2021/2022 $4000 balance continuing - supports transport provider expenses including gas, car repairs, related. Total liabilities on the transportation provider van loan and transportation provider credit card is $4,400

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IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt1Our Co-op Business Development program includes three worker co-ops and one producer co-op in development. At 47 participants, all members are at or below the poverty level with 44 members being people of color. Included is Rose & Cole's Transport, Berkshire Seamstresses (now called Magge Sadoway Immigrant Cooperative), The Handy Man Co-op and La Cocineras Latinas. All participants have completed the first stage of development called assess and feasibility. Members will continue through implementation/governance, sustainability and growth phases of development these next two years. The majority of our funding is though a subcontract with Cooperative Development Institute which is derived from a USDA grant for socially disadvantaged groups. CDI trains our volunteer co-op development staff through a Train the Trainers program so that we can provide hands on support all the while CDI also interacts with our groups for additional technical assistance. Co-op housing development is still in it's very early stages. In the past year, we have increased our mutual aid support to vulnerable teams as they seek to navigate funding options, as lack of start-up capital is the greatest impedance to our very low income teams making progress forward. In FY21/22 we have supported groups access three small but vital grants that have opened up post pandemic as a means to better support marginalized groups starting businesses. We will continue this trend in FY 22/23. CO-OP HOUSING - With limited equity co-op housing as our goal, a diminishing lease that acts as an equity builder for families living in multifamily residences is a hopeful prospect. We have 18 families on the waiting list, five of whom have improved their credit scores from a poor rating to average or even good, as they prepare to co-own/co-manage their shared housing We are outreaching to local donors for support around the initial start-up costs as traditional co-op housing demands a 20% down-payment, a difficult barrier for our families. Our co-op housing program runs a once a month educational forum to help our community learn more about co-op housing as local and state-wide grants are opening up. The co-op housing project is still completely volunteer run.
IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt2Community Programming includes Mercado De Vida, a twice weekly free market for vulnerable families serving up to 300 community members per week, many new immigrants. It partners with our urban garden, Madre Jardin, which teaches youth and adults to grow food together, to which families can take to their own homes with left overs being donated to Mercado De Vida. Corazonidos Community School is a 4x's weekly bi-lingual youth summer camp held at two of our parks and two of our housing projects, providing a Montessori - whole child model for youth ages pre-school through teen years. It offers tables with art, building tools, language arts, science, math, and musical instruments and physical education games. In this past summer session, it served 98 youth,many living in Pittsfield's most impoverished neighborhoods. this past summer session. It has concurrently worked with the school department this past year to enter the school system in FY 23/24 as Corazonidos Safe Sites in Schools. Fronteras Comunes continues it's bi-lingual social justice art zine collective which includes 18 members with a goal of media created by and for community while training youth and adults in translation, journalism, editing and publication lay-out and now offers translation services to fellow organizations. In FY 21/22, we opened a community center where we could expand our community development projects to include Mujeres Moviendo Montanas, an immigrant women's empowerment group for women working through trauma, English to Spanish classes twice weekly serving 37 community members up to date, weekly art classes, a once monthly singing group for families, weekly youth Latin dance classes, warming and cooling center, three hot meals a week, free massage by a licensed masseuse, once a month wellness clinic, while hosting community educational workshops. With donations from community we were able to also offer direct aid to families in crisis, to support back bills, an increasingly looming issue in our city where rent and food inflation is causing much displacement among low income residents.
IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt3Community Owned Real-estate - We've had a long standing goal of modeling a community owned and run community center here in Pittsfield, MA, where we as community members would co-share the running of the building, creating and designing its programming. The building would also serve impoverished groups/people starting businesses who would pay for space using a sliding scale model. This dream was made a reality last year thanks to a donor who gave us the purchase price for a downtown building at the nexus of two of our most impoverished neighborhoods, giving community members living there a central space to jump-start their dreams. Currently we serve one BIPOC start-up who is utilizing a small commercial kitchen area and a few local community members co-sharing the middle space for community workshops and social programming. The upstairs apartment is offered as affordable housing at 50% market rate or $650/month. Our main community programming is still being run from an interim space as the largest section of the building is needing rehab as it was a former bar in disrepair. We are so excited to recommission the commercial kitchen in the bar for the 17 member Latina led immigrant chef producer co-op, La Cocineras Latinas, who we work with that desperately needs a commercial kitchen to better serve our community with delicious cultural cuisine. We are currently awaiting community preservation grant funds to rehabilitate many parts of the building as well as a Mass Development grant to outfit the commercial kitchen. We are very excited to see how the building will serve vulnerable community members in these next years, especially those who need rental space that couldn't otherwise access it due to cost.
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IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt0$4,736 - Fiduciary payment to Maggie Sadoway Immigrant Co-op, one of the worker co-op teams we work with. They received a grant to help them learn more about how to support Latino community members with problem gambling. Funded through Massachusetts Health Resources. $1500 - stipend given to four youth leaders working in the urban garden, Madre Jardin, to support scholastic goals - funded through the New England Grassroots GROW grant. $5,819 - Direct Aid to vulnerable families in crisis. Money utilized to provide back rent, back utility bills, transport assistance, and car repair. Funded through donations. $1,230 - allotment to vulnerable member chefs in worker co-op teams to purchase materials to cook for community events, funded through the Markham Nathan grant.
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt1Transportation Provider Expenses, Commercial Car Insurance - $2,123, Van Loan - $2,105, Gas Expenditure - $3,548, Transportation phone service - $1,917, Vehicle Repair - $2,373 Total - $12,066 Any Other Expenses not mentioned - Public Computer Purchase (used computer) $260, Purchase of checks, $55.00, Event Permits - $379 Total - $694 COMBINED TOTAL EXPENSES - $12,760
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt2Paid off an additional $2,105 of the Transport Program van loan, leaving $400 remaining balance and increasing the equity to $7,400. We continue to have a transport provider credit card for car repairs and gas in the amount of $4000 which stands as a liability. The difference in equity and liability would stand at $3,400.
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt3As of our end of year fiscal report 21/22, only $400 was remaining to pay off on the Toyota Sienna van, leaving us $7,400 in equity according to Kelly Blue Book value. During FY 21 we paid off the van loan in the amount of $2,105, increasing access to it's equity by that amount.
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt42011 Toyota Sienna Loan - remaining balance end of fiscal year 2020/21 - $2,250 2011 Toyota Sienna Loan - remaining balance end of fiscal year 2021/22 - $400 Van as Asset - Kelly Blue Book, $8000 - $400 remaining balance - $7,600 in asset/equity. Credit Card liability - FY 2020/2021 it was $4000 Now FY 2021/2022 $4000 balance continuing - supports transport provider expenses including gas, car repairs, related. Total liabilities on the transportation provider van loan and transportation provider credit card is $4,400
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc0Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc1Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc2Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc3Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc4Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26
ReasonableCauseExplanation/ExplanationTxt0Our annual report was due January 15th and completed by our Treasurer and reviewed by one of our Board Directors. This year we found an accountant who volunteered to review our bank accounts and excel sheets to ensure integrity. We handed in our reports to her January 1st. Due to an extremely busy initial tax season in January/February, he was finally able to review our accounts these past two weeks, handing them back with a few modifications. We apologize for this delay.
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