Black Rock Coalition Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133355266
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
9175755742
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,058
Expenses
$19,138
Assets
$11,282
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

  • LARONDA DAVIS (President)
  • EARL DOUGLAS JR (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • LARONDA DAVIS (President)
  • EARL DOUGLAS JR (Executive Director)
  • DARRELL M MCNEILL (Director of Operations)

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

Charitable programmatic support working to eliminate prejudice and discrimination faced by progressive musicians of color and their audiences as they seek to create their art and benefit from their valuable contribution to culture and community.

What it reported doing in 2025

To serve our BRC COMMUNITY, we celebrated our 40th Anniversary with a Founders's Day Party and performance at National Sawdust in Williamsburg. Five artists featured on our "Rock 'n' Roll Reparations, Volume 5" compilation performed (Key Hutch, Honeychild Coleman, Faith NYC, KimberlyNichole, and Corey Glover) with DJ Logic spinning between sets. There were over 150 people in attendance as well as those who participated online. We tabled at the Punk Island zine fest where we connected with hundreds of attendees who also champion the DIY spirit. We enlisted DJ Logic, DJ Sugarfree BK, Binky Griptite, and the Bernie Worrell Orchestra to help celebrate our dearly-departed Board Member Bernie Worrell's birthday at Nublu on the Lower East Side. We also, again, helped facilitate funding for Santa Barbara Culture House's Black History Month programming. Over the course of the month, they hosted multiple musical and educational events that engaged over 350 people in the spirit of collective appreciation and opportunity.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -46.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.