High Desert Christian College Dba the Voices School for Liberation and Theology

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311532248
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
8447538726
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Higher Education Institutions
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,892
Expenses
$37,926
Assets
$7,859
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leroy Barber (President)
  • Donna Barber (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Leroy Barber (President)
  • Donna Barber (Executive Director)
  • Jess Bielman (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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Voices School For Liberation and Transformation exists to provide a spirit-filled, decolonized higher education learning community centered in the cultural context of black, indigenous and people of color.

What it reported doing in 2023

The Voices Project - exists to influence culture by training and promoting leaders of color. The Voices Project gathers leaders of color who work and pursue change - through the church, education, art, media & entertainment, politics or business - for important conversations about the current challenges and triumphs within communities of color and our role as cultural influencers. We provide insight on how to be effective in leadership within one's respective area of cultural influence in a way that is rooted in the history and experience of people of color. We advise organizational and institutional leadership on the self-reflection and correction needed to better support and retain leaders of color and we connect leaders of color to leadership opportunities that are based in their areas of expertise within a domain of cultural influence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
  • 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: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2023
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.