Crossroads Anti-racism Organizing & Training
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363986900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Vineburg, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7073430012
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $899,523
- Expenses
- $1,067,278
- Assets
- $756,058
- Liabilities
- $204,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessica Vazquez Torres (Transitional Executive Director)
- Michael Russell (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jessica Vazquez Torres (Transitional Executive Director): $114,119 total reported compensation
- Ryan Lents (Director): $94,973 total reported compensation
- Michael Russell (President): $82,459 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Crossroads Mission is to equip institutions with shared language frameworks practices and tools that will 1 assit diagnosing how institutions are structured to uphold white supremacy culture and systemic racism and 2 deploying strategies aimed at animating antiracist ways of being that result in racially equitable institutional culture and practice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Training and capacity building services to individual and institutional clients to support them to achieve racial justice and equity goals
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 73% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 51%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th 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: -18.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 51% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $545K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.