Hueman Development Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823047283
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 6783580127
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,486
- Expenses
- $128,696
- Assets
- $187,757
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRITTANY LINDSEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BRITTANY LINDSEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JOHN JAMES (MANAGING 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The the hueman development project is a black-led community development initiative focused on restoring land, preserving culture, and building equitable economic systems for black, queer, rural, and creative communities across the american south. Through interconnected projects like the house on claiborne and lindseyland & farm school, the organization develops affordable live-work spaces for artists and healers, teaches land restoration and trade education, supports black cultural production, and creates intergenerational pathways to community ownership, healing, and self-determination.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community development [: amp:] equitable infrastructure hueman development project initiatives the organization provides community-centered development programming that supports affordable housing cultural preservation economic opportunity and healing spaces for black and rural communities. Accomplishments include building partnerships across arts agriculture and workforce sectors developing strategic plans for long-term community ownership and creating systems that integrate housing education cultural production and economic mobility into a sustainable ecosystem for collective community wealth.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -680.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -179.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -46% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.