Bryant Temple Ame Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814792341
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2137602093
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,056,505
- Expenses
- $3,978,790
- Assets
- $73,555
- Liabilities
- $85,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dwaine A Jackson (executive director)
Highest reported compensation
- Dwaine A Jackson (executive director): $83,044 total reported compensation
- Charnita Belcher (director of operations): $54,156 total reported compensation
- Raichera McCray (accountant): $36,710 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Launched in 2017 under the umbrella of Bryant Temple AME Church, the Community Development Corporation (CDC) abides by the mission of Doing Community by serving the social, spiritual, and physical development of all people. We are active in the community, operating winter shelter programs for those who are unhoused, providing a food pantry to feed those in need in the community, providing no-cost counseling services by licensed clinicians, offering monthly activities for seniors to encourage community involvement and reduce isolation, and offering a variety of activities for youth/young adults to prevent gang and justice involvement.
What it reported doing in 2025
We partnered with the City of Los Angeles to develop and peace and healing program to help residents deal with trauma related issues. Additionally, we secured other funding partners to increase our outreach to those we serve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -93.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.16; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.