Black Image Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852350324
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3232070231
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,371
- Expenses
- $204,456
- Assets
- $62,565
- Liabilities
- $1,042
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kalena Yiaueki (President)
People named in this filing
- Kalena Yiaueki (President)
- Maya June Mansour (Executive Dir.)
- Samone Kidane (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Black Image Center BIC is a collective based non-profit 501c3 founded by a group of young black photographers in Los Angeles. We aim to cultivate imagination through photography and economically empower black storytellers and image makers. BIC lives online and offline. We encourage our young friends to pick up cameras and we get our grown friends jobs. we serve as a hub of resources and as a network of economic empowerment for the black creative community. We are all perpetually changing. water us and watch us bloom.
What it reported doing in 2024
Black Image Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting Black photographers and storytellers across Los Angeles. Founded to create space for the freedom, development, and growth of the Black imagination, our work in 2024 originated at our brick and mortar space and expanded to our programming partners across the city of LAreaching into every corner of the city through accessible, affordable photography programming. From artist residencies and workshops to photo walks, film festivals, and co-working hours, our programs engage over 800 participants annually with an online community of over 15,000. In 2024, we distributed over 300 of free film, preserved family histories for Black families through the Black Family Archive, and supported over 40 workshops and initiatives that prioritized community, access, and legacy-building. With the support of our partners and community, we've grown into a dynamic network of creatives reclaiming storytelling, preserving history, and establishing real pathways into the creative industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.