Fabric

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812629009
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Cleveland, MS, USA
Phone
6623921285
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Urban, Community Economic Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,249
Expenses
$97,024
Assets
$12,590
Liabilities
$1,158

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gwendolyn Arrington (Board President)
  • Alecia Reed-Owens (Board Vice-President)
  • Linda N Stringfellow (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Gwendolyn Arrington (Board President)
  • Alecia Reed-Owens (Board Vice-President)
  • Chandra Hines (Board Secretary)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of this Corporation is formed are exclusively charitable and educational for and consist of the following: a. To develop initiatives that empower and are geared towards providing a forum which empowers women and men to exemplify the ideas of self-awareness, reclamation, culture, and leadership within the family and community in a manner that improves social conditions and positively impacts the underlying structure of the family, community, and society. b. To offer a community health education program for low-income residents and low resource communities that assist residents in receiving proper health care, prevention methods, and establishing referral systems to support community and individual needs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Your Voice Zone is a civic engagement and leadership development initiative of FABRIC Inc. that empowers young adults ages 18-30 to become active participants in civic life. Through educational workshops, and peer-led discussions, participants explore topics such as advocacy, social justice, policy, and civic responsibility. In 2024, the program served over 40 young adults (an estimate), primarily from underrepresented communities, and provided gift cards to each participant as an incentive and support. The program helps equip participants with the knowledge and confidence to serve as informed voters, effective advocates, and emerging community leaders. A key goal for 2025 is to recruit four Your Voice Zone Ambassadors from colleges and universities in the Mississippi Delta region, expanding the program's impact and deepening its leadership pipeline. The long-term goal of the initiative is to increase the representation of diverse young leaders in decision-making spaces such as public office, community boards, and grassroots movements.

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

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: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.4%; rating input score 30
  • Program expense ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 31

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.4% of revenue deployed · 31.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.