Belonging
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 392721133
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4074157850
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Intergroup, Race Relations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,848
- Expenses
- $68,736
- Assets
- $11,870
- Liabilities
- $758
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Williamson (President)
- Laverne March (Vice-president)
People named in this filing
- David Williamson (President)
- Laverne March (Vice-president)
- Victoria Pepper (Board Chair)
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
Belonging Inc. provides education, support and leader development services for clergy, congregations and organizations who want to build communities of belonging where cultural differences are recognized, understood, appreciated and utilized as strengths. Through educational facilitation, immersive experiences, and spiritual leadership support, Belonging, Inc. helps diverse communities address and change the biases, behaviors, and emotions that hinder authentic belonging, peacemaking, and collaborative leadership.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pilgrimage - The St. Augustine pilgrimage invites you to visit Florida's "oldest city" differently than a tourist. We will move through the city, stopping in 8 locations, with openness to learning from the stories of racial resilience, struggle, courage, trauma and transformation. Attendees: 313 people
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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. 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 97.3%; rating input score 97
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: 13.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 97.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.