Be Blac Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921861034
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Salem, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034288125
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Minority Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $427,534
- Expenses
- $697,710
- Assets
- $223,556
- Liabilities
- $226,635
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- GREGGERY PETERSON (EXECUTIVE DI): $103,000 total reported compensation
- JESSICA PETERSON (BOARD MEMBER): $42,018 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to develop and grow the black community through generational leadership, partnering and supporting black-owned, run, and operated businesses/nonprofits, and strengthening black families. Our vision: community where black leadership impacts every area of the community and where no decisions are made without our community's direct influence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth and education development: elevate and advance the academic support for our next generation. The be-blac foundation served a total of 1,260 youth served across all foundation initiatives. The be-blac foundation purchased remaining black history 365 curriculum for elective offering at the highschool level for the african american history course to launch during the 2026 school year, sponsored busses and registration for 130 students to attend the african american youth leadership conference, and supported 8 black staff to attend the national alliance of black school educators conference. In addition, the be-blac foundation provided literacy boxes to scott elementary students to help with reading literacy over the summer and made kindle readers available for students to read through the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -63.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 106.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 74.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $504K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.