East Brooklyn Mutual Aid

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 853644732
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2022
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2022
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone: 6315327818
Rating: 91
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue: $63,096
Expenses: $52,196
Assets: $31,107
Liabilities: $25,683

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Kelvin Taitt (Founder, Executive Director)

People named in this filing

Kelvin Taitt (Founder, Executive Director)
Ari Hooks (board member)
Nicolette Doorn (Co-chair)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

During the pandemic, East Brooklyn experienced higher death rates than NYC's average toll. In Ocean Hill and Brownsville, nearly half of the community experience hunger due to lack of income, and East New York is one of the biggest food swamps in NYC. This lack of access to healthy food stands in direct correlation to the community's death toll, and East Brooklyn Mutual Aid (EBMA) is on a mission to transform the food landscape of East Brooklyn to serve its people. EBMA is a volunteer-led initiative run by ordinary people, mostly Black, Latinx, and LGBTQIA+ folks, addressing food insecurity in Brooklyn's eastern neighborhoods. EBMA was organized to support those affected by COVID-19, particularly immunocompromised and unemployed people, by providing free groceries and social support, and we have expanded to strengthen movements for food sovereignty and community-reliance through direct community organizing.

What it reported doing in 2022

Through 2022, we have been expanding our work to support healthy food in East Brooklyn from BIPOC farmers. We established new and continued collaboration with our diverse partners. We developed building plan for the Black Radish Grocery & food hub to be located at Chestnut Commons in Cypress Hills. We made 537 unique deliveries to 93 senior households affiliated with Christian Cultural Center. We provided fresh produce and groceries for 250 households for Grandparents Day at Doral Health and Fitness. We collected and donated surplus green produce (approximately 60-80lbs. per week) from Teens for Justice. We supported BIPOC Farms, Black Yard Farm and Trinity Farm. Support included farm field trips for community members to learn about farm operations & gain hands-on experience. We also made bi-monthly deliveries of fresh produce from Trinity Farm to East New York. EBMA supports our community in crisis. We provided 3 meals per day for two weeks during the Herkimer building electricity outage. We helped Black Yard Farm move and find new furniture. We avoided food waste at Farm Fresh Caribbean Growers by buying two bushels of callaloo and distributing it through our network. Our Executive Director, Kelvin Taitt, was recognized as apart of the 2022 class of 40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in NYC Food Policy.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 99% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 91
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 43
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 17.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -69.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 411.3% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 166.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.