Black Business Association of La
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953166199
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3232919334
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,824
- Expenses
- $203,150
- Assets
- $21,770
- Liabilities
- $78,886
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH HARRIS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH HARRIS (PRESIDENT): $50,180 total reported compensation
- EARL COOPER (CHAIRMAN): $6,510 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The black business association advocates for and promotes the development of african-american owned businesses with the goal of creating a firm economic base that supports self-determination and survival of the african-american base that supports self-determination and survival of the african-american
What it reported doing in 2025
Business readiness and sustainability webinars and workshops
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.8%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 33%; rating input score 33
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.62; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.8% of revenue deployed · 33% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.