Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882014721
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Waterbury, CT, USA
- Phone
- 4753745021
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,815
- Expenses
- $335,451
- Assets
- $50,537
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nelson Rafael Feliciano Roman (President CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Dwayne Pittman (CFO): $20,375 total reported compensation
- Nelson Rafael Feliciano Roman (President CEO): $15,603 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Afro-Caribbean Cultural Center empowers Afro-Caribbean Black and Tano communities through the arts education and activism. This includes strategies that foster youth education & self-determination deepening community connections and preserving Afro-Latino Black & Tano cultures. While building our organizational capacity to uplift our community and celebrate our rich heritage with confidence and purpose across generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
C.A.C.I.Q.U.E.: exists to share our belief that restorative justice peace circle process is a great tool for self governance and can be used to support the contributions of all community members in all of the aspects of life in a community; governance problem-solving addressing harm celebration etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 49.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $167K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.