Brooklyn Peace Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861332173
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,939
- Expenses
- $85,499
- Assets
- $27,304
- Liabilities
- $2,612
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vonetta Storbakken (President)
- Juan Carlos Ruis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Vonetta Storbakken (President)
- Rebeca Pear (Treasurer)
- Juan Carlos Ruis (Vice President)
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
Peacebuilding is the development of just and constructive personal, social, cultural, and political relationships across ethnic, racial, and religious identities, class and national boundaries, and diverse gender expressions and sexual orientations. Through nonviolent and antiviolent practices, peacebuilding transforms the interpersonal and structural conditions that perpetuate harm, fostering resilience, equity, and collective liberation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Brooklyn Peace Center provides community-based peacebuilding programs in Brooklyn, New York. Core offerings include the Healing Series and Creative Practice workshops, trauma-informed healing circles, and arts-based programs such as ArtLuck (community art gatherings) and the annual Brooklyn Peace Conference. The organization also hosts public cultural events including Jazz Night, open mics, and community dialogues. Youth and community engagement initiatives foster leadership, nonviolence, and collective care.
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
MIXED - 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.1%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 29.9%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 28.1% of revenue deployed · 29.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.