Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461703251
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2672575942
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $345,503
- Expenses
- $409,839
- Assets
- $4,945
- Liabilities
- $17,864
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michele Byrd-McPhee (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Michele Byrd-McPhee (Executive Director): $16,810 total reported compensation
- Tiffany Cayetano (Trustee): $600 total reported compensation
- Porshia Derival (Co-Chair): $75 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering girls and women in Hip-Hop culture. LOHH provides girls and women with a platform, training, performance opportunities, mentorships, and other opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Residency and performance bookings
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.61; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $369K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.