Groove City Black Heritage & Culture Group Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
845074410
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Cambridge, MD, USA
Phone
4432250819
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$134,991
Expenses
$124,584
Assets
$71,031
Liabilities
$4,470

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Veronica Taylor (Executive Director)
  • Randolph Potter (Vice President)
  • Andra Blake-Jones (Past-Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Veronica Taylor (Executive Director)
  • Randolph Potter (Vice President)
  • Jamie Stanley (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide art and culture programs and events that will inspire creative expression in people of all ages.

What it reported doing in 2025

IKE (Inspire Knowledge and Empower) Summer Program - A mentoring and summer camp program serving youth 7 to 14 years old during the summer and afterschool, fields trips and curriculum that inspires youth to express themselves creativitely and increase their academic skills and build healthy relationships with their peers. We served 30 students in the summer and 28 students afterschool during the school year

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 57.2%; rating input score 57

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 55.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 57.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.