Bradley Alliance Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992883809
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,940
Expenses
$9,395
Assets
$1,430

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Diara Bradley (Co-Founder)
  • Robin Hackett-Bradley (Co-Founder)

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 promote cultural enrichment community engagement and local economic development through public events festivals and programs that highlight local businesses food arts and music.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Taste of Bronzeville is a community festival that promotes cultural enrichment community engagement and local economic development in Chicagos Bronzeville neighborhood. The festival offers a public space for residents visitors small businesses and community organizations to connect through food arts music and cultural activities. It provides a platform for local restaurants food vendors artisans and entrepreneurs to showcase their products and services increasing visibility revenue and customer base. The event features live entertainment cultural performances educational booths and resources on community services entrepreneurship and neighborhood initiatives. By highlighting Bronzevilles history culture and commercial activity the festival fosters community pride and participation strengthening relationships and supporting local institutions. Through vendor participation cultural programming and community engagement the festival boosts economic activity for businesses enhancing neighborhood vitality and local commerce. This program aligns with the organizations mission by promoting community engagement supporting small businesses and offering accessible cultural and educational programming to the public.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.