Beyond Black
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825225438
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 9716014309
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Minority Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,438
- Expenses
- $133,937
- Assets
- $7,324
- Liabilities
- $544
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM DAVIS (INTERIM PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM DAVIS (INTERIM PRESIDENT)
- LATASHA CARTER (SECRETARY)
- ROBYN STOWERS (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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Beyond Black seeks to reverse negative impacts on black communities by breaking down institutional barriers and providing resources and support systems for black people to thrive.
What it reported doing in 2019
Play-Grow-Learn (PGL) provides youth and family services by hostingweekly gyn nights for and youth nights, for underserved youth, focusing on homelessand foster families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.8%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 180.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.8% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K 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: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.