A J Williams-myers African Roots Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371793041
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Kingston, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8458020035
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,410
- Expenses
- $82,845
- Assets
- $61,425
- Liabilities
- $172
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maureen Byrd-Blue (President)
- Stephanie Munford (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maureen Byrd-Blue (President)
- Stephanie Munford (Vice President)
- Jamie Levato (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
African Roots Community Center strives to uplift the history, experience, and culture of Black peoples, indigenous peoples, and peoples of color through a library collection and through programming for children, teens, adults, and elders. Often working in collaboration with community groups and local organizations, African Roots Comminity Center is committed to the advancement of historical knowledge, cultural enrichment, civic engagement, and class and racial justice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth and Family Programming: Programming in 2024 included puppet-making workshops, puppet theatre performances, creative arts programs, nutrition/health/cooking workshops, Beats and Science, School Field Trips, Friday Family Film Night, and community-based convenings. These free programs further our mission by directly engaging youth and families through arts, learning, and civic engagement experiences that are fun, empowering and historically informative. Approximately 660 served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -95.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -28.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -28.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.