Communitas Archive Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 995026573
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9178386081
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,281
- Expenses
- $42,541
- Assets
- $196,720
- Liabilities
- $546
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUNMOON JANG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
People named in this filing
- PEG TYRE (BOARD OF DIRECTOR)
- DAN WANG (BOARD OF DIRECTOR)
- SUNMOON JANG (PRESIDENT & CEO)
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
Communitas archive inc. Is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting research and documenting data, human experiences, and community stories to preserve their narratives and inspire solutions that strengthen resilience and sustainability. (i) to conduct social and urban research and create publications and exhibitions that combine quantitative data with anecdotal stories from local communities in New York city and other cities worldwide; (ii) to collect urban data, archive stories, and inspire innovative solutions for long-term sustainability and resilience within marginalized local communities; and (iii) to expand, enrich, and amplify data, stories, and solutions within relevant local communities through partnerships with authors, creators, artists, and performers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -68.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.62; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -164.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.