Diverse Mosaic Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934692973
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852831997
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,500
- Expenses
- $163,500
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cherriese Bufis (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Cherriese Bufis (Executive 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
Diverse Mosaic Community Center is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The organizations purpose is to provide peer led advocacy, trauma informed support, violence prevention initiatives, educational programming, housing stabilization assistance youth and family support services and healing centered community programs for individuals and families impacted by poverty, domestic violence, foster care involvement, Child Protective Services CPS involvement, trauma, and systemic inequities. The organization shall work to strengthen community well being promote self sufficiency, reduce barriers to stability provide educational and supportive services and advance public benefit through culturally responsive and community based programming
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided peer led advocacy and support services to families impacted by poverty domestic violence CPS involvement foster care and systemic inequities throughout the Greater Rochester community. Assisted families in preventing eviction and reducing housing instability through rental arrears coordination landlord communication subsidy navigation and emergency housing support. Developed trauma informed and healing centered programming focused on violence prevention, emotional regulation, behavioral change, and community wellness. Coordinated wraparound support services including transportation assistance, emergency food support, court advocacy, school advocacy, and healthcare navigation. Built partnerships with community organizations, healthcare providers AmeriCorps volunteers educators and legal advocates to strengthen access to community based care. Supported youth and families through peer to peer advocacy rooted in lived experience and culturally responsive practices. Helped community members navigate systems including Child Protective Services CPS family court probation hospitals, schools, and social services. Conducted community workshops and teach ins focused on Know Your Rights education, CPS advocacy violence prevention healing practices and self advocacy. Assisted in stabilizing housing for vulnerable families by coordinating rental support plans and reducing barriers to maintaining safe housing. Trained and mentored lived experience advocates and peer supporters to strengthen community leadership and expand trauma informed support services. Advanced community wellness initiatives through partnerships focused on restorative practices, African centered healing, therapeutic yoga, and social emotional support. Strengthened organizational infrastructure through policy development, nonprofit governance practices and implementation of confidentiality and compliance procedures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
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: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.