Centro Cultural Quilombo Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453221578
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
3479526047
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,376
Expenses
$1,164
Assets
$1,635
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Katia Conant (President)

People named in this filing

  • Katia Conant (President)
  • Pedro Vasques (Director)
  • Rebecca Conant (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Centro Cultural Quilombo is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Afro-Brazilian and Brazilian folk culture through education, arts, and community engagement. We provide classes, workshops, performances, and public events that celebrate and preserve these cultural traditions. Our programs empower individuals by fostering cultural pride, physical and mental well-being, leadership development, and community connection. Through capoeira, dance, music, and educational initiatives, we create inclusive spaces that support diversity, social equity, and cross-cultural understanding.

What it reported doing in 2025

Centro Cultural Quilombo fulfilled its exempt purpose by providing free and affordable cultural programming to the public through capoeira, forró, and related community events. During the year, the organization offered free capoeira programming, free rodas, and special cultural programming featuring a high-level woman capoeira teacher. It also provided free and affordable forró programming to increase access to Brazilian dance and cultural learning. These programs were open to youth and adults and supported community engagement, cultural education, and participation in Afro-Brazilian and Brazilian cultural traditions. Approximately 100 individuals attended the organization's programs during the year. Through classes, rodas, workshops, and community-based events, participants engaged with movement, music, and cultural traditions in a welcoming and inclusive environment. By making these programs free or affordable, Centro Cultural Quilombo advanced its mission to promote cultural understanding, community connection, and personal empowerment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 51%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 139.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 117.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.