Diasporadna Story Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331725010
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Elkins Park, PA, USA
- Phone
- 9176038118
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,545
- Expenses
- $78,411
- Assets
- $5,515
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Monica O Montgomery (Founder)
- Dennis Maurice Dumpson (Treasurer)
- Connie Grier (Board Member)
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
To promote cultural understanding and preserve the heritage of diverse communities through educational programming, immersive cultural tours, festivals, and accessible historical resources. Based in Philadelphia, we highlight the global majority through art, archives, ancestry and activations.
What it reported doing in 2025
ACTIVATIONS Activation Programs are framed through "Celebrate the Magic of Philly Festivals"-centering Philadelphia's 200+ cultural festivals as heritage lifelines. "City of Festivals" is positioned as preserving/amplifying traditions through youth-driven storytelling, think tanks, toolkits, education opportunities, and a traveling bus tour that turns archives into experiences. Activities / People Served Philly Festivals Mixer 106 people Philly Festivals Think Tank 35 people Philly Festivals Website 1500 people Outcomes/Impact: Festival Producers participated in technical assistance, professionals development and a community of practice Audiences developed cultural curiosity and regard for multicultural festivals Hyperlocal heritage is preserved thru audiences seeing, sharing and supporting festival information
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.2%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.2% of revenue deployed · 21.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.