Bayou Environmental Justice Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932580008
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2254490909
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,790
- Expenses
- $77,235
- Assets
- $10,805
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Quisha Reed-Jones (Executive Director)
- Elmo Morgan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Quisha Reed-Jones (Executive Director)
- Elmo Morgan (Vice President)
- Bettie Jefferson (Community Impact Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bayou Environmental Justice Coalition, hereinafter referred to as (BEJC) is a tax-exempt 501c3 organization doing business in Louisiana and California. BEJC doing business as (DBA) Alsen St Irma Lee Community Village (ASILCV) in Louisiana and in California. BEJC promotes equitable access to a clean and healthy environment for communities. Our goal is to be an impactful Environmental Movement led by members of the community. We are inspired by the belief that everyday people can shape, and mold a society where everyone can achieve their true potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program 1. Alsen St. Irma Lee Environment Justice and Historical Preservation Project. Conducted a comprehensive environmental and historical research initiative to document the socio-economic impacts of industrial encroachment on the historic 1872-Freedmen Bureau community of Alsen, LA. Engaged student engineering interns as independent consultants to analyze regional environmental burdens, including historical Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the East Baton Rouge Parish industrial corridor. Deliverables mapping local pollution footprints, and historical documentation alongside the residents to put into action documenting their lived experience cumulative health impacts. Program 2. Community Mapping Program. Community members completed an environmental mapping cohort dedicated to empowering the community to engage with stakeholders and municipal policymakers to demonstrate flood vulnerabilities, support equitable infrastructure planning, and enhance skills in climate resilience. Developed and published a comprehensive flood mapping and community mapping toolkit. Program 3. Participated in a collaborative community monitoring data collection to track, assess, and document localized industrial hazards and cumulative health impacts. Utilized publicly available data to learn and evaluate how localized toxic exposure levels could compound and exacerbate the severity of an industrial or climate-related emergency. Distributed specialized disaster response kits tailored to protect the community during emergencies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.