Four Block Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463575713
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5189290519
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,942,811
- Expenses
- $3,345,597
- Assets
- $2,209,364
- Liabilities
- $142,182
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL ABRAMS (PRESIDENT/NON-VOTING DIRECTOR)
- OLIVIA MARTINEZ-STEWART (VICE PRESIDENT, PROGRAMS)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL ABRAMS (PRESIDENT/NON-VOTING DIRECTOR): $209,503 total reported compensation
- QUETA RODRIGUEZ (NATIONAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $162,732 total reported compensation
- KARIN CHILDRESS (CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER): $147,726 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We support, educate, and prepare returning enlisted service members with pursuing meaningful careers that capitalize on their interests, strengths, and capabilities. We also assist and advise employers with attracting and on-boarding veterans that are a skills and cultural match at their companies. Our mantra is "the right veteran , the right career."
What it reported doing in 2025
We support, educate, and prepare returning enlisted service members with pursuing meaning fulcareers that capitalize on their interests, strengths, and capabilities. We also assist and advise employers with attracting and on-boarding veterans that are a skills and cultural match at their companies. Our mantra is "the right veteran , the right career."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $210K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.