Last call for some (small) nonprofits

Call it an occupational hazard, particularly at a government transparency nonprofit, but I enjoy reading stuff like this notice from the IRS about the automatic deletion of nonprofit status from organizations that haven’t filed with the IRS in the last three years. It used to be that inactive groups could coast without filing for ages, but that changed. Most nonprofit orgs with an IRS determination have to file annually — churches are a main exception — though for small groups that probably means the so-called “postcard” filing. Originally hundreds of thousands of groups — those that hasn’t filed for three years — were slated for deletion, but the IRS has given non-filers one last chance, due October 15.

In many cases, there are really defunct organizations, and should be deleted. But the following have Unitarian or Universalist in their name. Some are relics, others I think active. Do you know anything about their current status? And if they’re active, who needs to be contacted? (If not, we can be grateful for their past service.)

And some detail about this move from Blue Avocado, a nonprofit resource I like.

In FEIN order:

03-6013292 MID-VERMONT UNITARIAN-UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP INC 36 N MAIN ST RANDOLPH VT 05060-1149
04-2121360 MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSALIST FUND 150 REDINGTON ST SWAMPSCOTT MA 01907-2137
04-2602027 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PASTORAL COUNSELING SERVICE INC % R ALI-OGLU 10 CHILDS CIRCLE FRAMINGHAM MA 01701-0000
04-6042476 ALLIANCE OF THE FIRST PARISH UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH 630 MASSACHUSETTS AVE ARLINGTON MA 02476-5003
04-6076064 FIRST CHURCH UNITARIAN TRUST 2677 02 NECT 125 HIGH ST BOSTON MA 02110-2704
04-6080404 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH TRUST 576 NECT 125 HIGH ST BOSTON MA 02110-2704
04-6080405 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH TRUST 579 NECT 125 HIGH ST BOSTON MA 02110-2704
06-1025035 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PSI SYMPOSIUM EXPLORERS 29131 MILLARD DR BAY VILLAGE OH 44140-1964
11-2431785 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ADVANCE INC PO BOX 23144 SANTA FE NM 87502-3144
13-6049723 TR UA 1-28-1898 M B KNOWLTON FBO UNITARIAN SOCIETY IN UPTON MASS 270 PARK AVE NEW YORK NY 10017-2014
16-6411704 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF AMHERST ENDOWMENT TRUST 6320 MAIN ST WILLIAMSVILLE NY 14221-5821
22-2175295 WOMEN S CENTER OF MORRIS MORRISTOWN UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP 812 NORMANDY HEIGHTS RD MORRISTOWN NJ 07960-0000
22-2957061 WELLER UNITRUST FUND UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SER COM INC 78 BEACON ST BOSTON MA 02108-3421
23-1710240 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST BLACK AFFAIRS COUNCIL INC 5622 GERMANTOWN AVE PHILA PA 19144-2228
23-1993446 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PSI SYMPOSIUM LANCASTER CHAPTER 141 N PINE ST LANCASTER PA 17603-3432
23-7401450 FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY FOUNDATION OF MADISON INC 900 UNIVERSITY BAY DR MADISON WI 53705-2249
23-7437785 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FOUNDATION OF PHOENIX 4027 E LINCOLN DR PARADISE VLY AZ 85253-3946
25-1501026 UNITARIANS UNIVERSALISTS FOR FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE 63 CONNECTING RD PITTSBURGH PA 15228-2133
31-1077147 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND 536 LINTON ST CINCINNATI OH 45219-2438
35-6211103 FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH REVOCABLE TRUST 320 S HIGH ST MUNCIE IN 47305-2325
42-1339721 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PROCESS THEOLOGY NETWORK 2508 JACKSON ST SIOUX CITY IA 51104-3522
54-2015263 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY 12640 WINFREE ST CHESTER VA 23831-5030
58-1859593 ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF LITTLE ROCK 1818 RESERVOIR RD LITTLE ROCK AR 72227-4917
59-6205653 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ORLANDO ENDOWMENT FUND INC 1815 E ROBINSON AVE ORLANDO FL 32803-5934
75-1827812 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST RETIREMENT & RETREAT ASSOCIATION OF THE SW PO BOX 190869 DALLAS TX 75219-0869
86-0410808 SIERRA ANCHA WILDERNESS UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION 1373 N 44TH ST PHOENIX AZ 85008-5603
90-0317310 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST MUSICIANS NETWORK 2208 HENERY TUCKERS CT CHARLOTTE NC 28270-1743
92-0143572 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST COMMUNITY SERVICES 3201 TURNAGAIN ST ANCHORAGE AK 99517-1848

By Scott Wells

Scott Wells, 46, is a Universalist Christian minister doing Universalist theology and church administration hacks in Washington, D.C.

3 comments

  1. About halfway down, the Weller Unitrust… don’t know much about the trust or what purpose it served when it existed. What’s striking though, is the Service Committee hasn’t occupied 78 Beacon St., Boston since 1989. This makes it pretty clear to me that this “purging” process reflects the IRS’s shortcomings with record-keeping as much as it does with nonprofits’ responsibility for filing.

  2. I have a hard time pinning this on the IRS. At minimum, these groups have not filed in three years and if a nonprofit disbanded I would think it has a responsibility with filing with the IRS, and not the IRS chasing the groups. So I’d bet the Weller Fund dates — and ended with — that old office.

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