Azal Benne Lockett Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863389266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8449225435
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,231
- Expenses
- $67,269
- Assets
- $51,723
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Ewing (Vice President and Secretary)
- Dr Portia Lockett (Founder and President)
People named in this filing
- Karen Ewing (Vice President and Secretary)
- Dr Portia Lockett (Founder and President)
- Beverly Allen (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
The ABL Foundation exists to provide education, counseling and resources for individuals dealing with grief. They strive to provide resources for healing, having hope and holding the heart.
What it reported doing in 2025
Permission to Day held May 17, 2025. Attended by 125 people. Permission To Day Series is the culmination of our Permission To Grieve, Permission To Heal, Permission To Live and Laugh, Permission To Love Again, Permission To Move Forward and Permission To Celebrate events presented in one day
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.5%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.5% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.