Brookline for Racial Justice & Equity Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921761321
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Brookline, MA, USA
Phone
3054015735
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$196,139
Expenses
$162,964
Assets
$87,304
Liabilities
$51,642

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RAUL FERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • RAUL FERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • BONNIE BASTIEN (DIRECTOR)
  • DEBORAH BROWN (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

Brookline for racial justice & equity's mission is to eliminate racism in brookline, Massachusetts.

What it reported doing in 2024

Brje's mission is to eliminate racism in brookline, Massachusetts. We envision an accessible and inclusive brookline where people of color live, learn, work, visit, build power, and thrive free of racism and oppression. We'll get there by building an informed, motivated, and organized constituency for racial justice while leveraging our collective power to reshape the systems around us. The organization's focus areas are access: ensuring that people of color can afford to live in brookline by eliminating restrictive barriers to housing, childcare, early education, recreation programs, food, and other essentials.inclusion: ensuring that people of color can meaningfully participate in social and civic life by eliminating barriers to political participation and by actively enforcing civil rights protections. Opportunity: ensuring that the health, environmental, and educational benefits of brookline are maximized for people of color while creating effective pathways to economic mobility.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 41
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.2%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 46

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 43%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 188.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 129.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 68.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.2% of revenue deployed · 45.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.