BreakBox Thought Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831622613
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5593073819
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,495,050
- Expenses
- $1,178,436
- Assets
- $521,619
- Liabilities
- $21,554
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jamillah Finley (President)
- Elisha Henderson (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jamillah Finley (President): $129,340 total reported compensation
- Earl Oliver (Director): $68,750 total reported compensation
- Elisha Henderson (Vice President): $59,290 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
BreakBox Thought Collectives model empowers grassroots, boots on the ground leadership, redefining democracy by co-imagining and creating solutions to heal and repair the hams of racial trauma and injustice. We are a worker self directed model that is adjacent to a worker cooperative with a general decision making circle that collectively leads in a collaborative and transparent manner.
What it reported doing in 2024
The specific purpose of this organization is to provide a variety of research-based initiatives and campaigns. The organization seeks to engage with the community as thought leaders. The breakbox thought studio is a holistic, radical, and unapologetic space for creativity, diversity, and imagination.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. 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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 21.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 97.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 88.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 95% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $129K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.