Beyond Your Block

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923505354
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2408320940
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,200
Expenses
$45,522
Assets
$9,947
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Skip Bland (President of the board)

People named in this filing

  • Noell Grant (Director)
  • Rodney Grant (Associate Director)
  • Skip Bland (President of the board)

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

Part III, Organization's primary exempt purpose: Beyond Your Block exist to ensure that every kid has the opportunity to expand their horizons by transcending their boundaries outside of their neighborhood. Our mission is to expand opportunities for young people by equipping them with creative and technical skills while fostering confidence and career readiness. We empower underserved youth through media, filmmaking, and mentorship programs that provide hands-on experience, industry exposure, and life skills.

What it reported doing in 2025

Line 28 Beyond Your Block operated a youth film education program that introduced students to filmmaking through instruction in storytelling, camera operation, sound, and editing. Students produced short films, and developed creative and technical skills using industry standard equipment and software. Beyond Your Block provided youth participants with professional-grade equipment to create their own films.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 132.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 76.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.