Bipoc Economic Success Trust
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882291038
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7206861689
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,770
- Expenses
- $163,532
- Assets
- $76,240
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carla Ladd (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Carla Ladd (Executive 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
B.E.S.T.'s primary purpose is to strengthen the economic power of Colorado's Black community by connecting people, resources, and opportunities. It supports Black-led nonprofits, Black-owned businesses, professionals, and youth through collaboration, partnerships, and access to tools that drive growth and innovation. By serving as a central hub that unites efforts across sectors, B.E.S.T. helps build sustainable pathways to prosperity, resilience, and long-term community impact.
What it reported doing in 2025
BEST conducted the 2025 Success Summit to provide educational programming for Black entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, professionals, and community members. Approximately 500 individuals participated in workshops and panel discussions covering business development, access to capital, marketing, procurement readiness, leadership development, financial literacy, and wealth building. Sessions were facilitated by representatives from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Participants received information and tools intended to support business growth, employment advancement, and financial stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 58.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $164K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.