Black Girls Film Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872502815
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7042370530
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $385,076
- Expenses
- $338,862
- Assets
- $196,103
- Liabilities
- $8,943
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JIMMEKA ANDERSON (EXECUTIVE DIR): $36,250 total reported compensation
- SIERRA DAVIS (FIN & OPERATIO): $31,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We seek to close the representation gap of stories in media by cultivating the nextgeneration of storytellers and amplifying those stories from dream to screen to socialimpact.
What it reported doing in 2024
Black girls film camp (USA) provides a free, national, and hybrid 16-week experience (held once a year) where high school girls across the country pitch a story idea, and a final ten are selected to have their short film project produced by the program. Ten finalists are selected each year as the new cohort to direct and develop their own short films. The camp is an incubator for the ten girls and each of their films. Participants receive free cameras and tech equipment, free software, their own professional production team of exemplary creatives (editor, production coach, cinematographer, and alumni coach) contracted out by the camp, an all-expense paid weekend retreat in la, and free workshops from award- winning filmmakers and ph.d. Scholars. Films created by the teen girls and their production teams are showcased during black girls film camp premiere weekend over the summer and at film festivals, colleges/universities, and community events worldwide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $31.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $295K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.