Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844398090
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
6029302923
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Humanities Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$714,389
Expenses
$637,111
Assets
$642,207
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • ELSA GEBREYOHANES (OFFICER): $60,000 total reported compensation
  • HANAN ROBINSON (DEPARTMENT LEAD): $59,039 total reported compensation
  • KEISHA ACTON (DEPARTMENT LEAD): $55,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Black Live Matter Phoenix Metro is a social justice organization that advocates for a more just world.

What it reported doing in 2024

BLMPHXM work towards Black Liberation by practicing abolition to seek true freedom of mind, write blueprints for a new world, cultivate healing, and create art. The organizations intention is to create a non-carceral and life-affirming world. Advocacy Work: Bridged community and government to provide wraparound care for marginalized people and keep them out of a cycle of incarceration. Support families on their chosen path towards justice; advocating at city council, showing up to support during court dates, hosting panels and hosting community events. Healing programs/Therapy groups/trainings: Held 10 Peer Support group sessions for marginalized communities. Hosted camping for beginners events for 8 first time campers of marginalized communities. Educational programs: Freedom schools/Free arts/book club: An important part of our work is education and art programs for youth and adults to help build awareness and address systematic injustice along with empowering communities with knowledge and agency to craft solutions. Launched a multigenerational community based book club. Environmental Justice Coalition: Launched pilot program where local grassroots organizations can come together to build strategies on how to deal with climate crisis of Phoenix, AZ.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 31
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 40% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $589K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.