Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020749266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Douglaston, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5169848948
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,999
- Expenses
- $92,925
- Assets
- $147,442
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Yolanda Lezama (President)
- Jean Leon (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Yolanda Lezama (President)
- Jean Leon (Vice President)
- Patricia Romeo (Secretary)
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
To function as a learning center that will provide information on all aspects of caribbean culture. To involve neighborhood adults/ederly and youths in a lecture series on the history and development of caribbean carnival, musical instruments and folk dance. To link with other community based organization that will provide additional cultural information for caribbean and non-carribern people.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conducted Junior Pan Fest., Jamboree and World Steelpan Festival
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 19.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.