Black Film Allegiance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851310100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3523426716
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,620
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $1,549
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- E'lon Washington (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- E'lon Washington (President & CEO)
- Jordan Thomas (CFO)
- Desirae Lee (Secretary)
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
To create visibility and resources for underrepresented creatives.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted our first annual Reel Connect event bringing together more than 100 independent creatives to offer industry insight and resources. We had two panel events, one of which offered information on how to indecently finance productions. There was also free food, a film screening, award provided, and conversations with a representative for HBCU LA (all items were provided to our organization for free, save for a couple of admin items listed in the statements)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.2%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 56.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -75% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -40.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.2% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $489 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.