Mothers Against Police Brutality

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473053510
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2146832493
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights

Reported finances

Revenue
$234,972
Expenses
$431,776
Assets
$374,631
Liabilities
$55,452

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Collette Flanagan (Executive Director)
  • Collette Flanagan (President)
  • Pamela Meanes (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Collette Flanagan (Executive Director): $147,502 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of Mothers Against Police Brutality is to prevent the use of police deadly force against Black people and others from disenfranchised communities; to change use of deadly force and related policies and practices throughout the United States and internationally; to advocate, with families who have lost loved ones to police violence, for change; and to expand the concept of public safety beyond policing by limiting encounters between police and the public, and by making major social investments in unmet human needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

MAPB continued its leadership development program, the MAPB Fellowship Legacy Program, in 10 U.S. cities, to train and support mothers directly impacted by police brutality; conducted a public hearing for directly impacted families in Washington DC, which included program Fellows from 10 cities across the country, and other families from the DC, VA, and MD; in addition, the Fellows continued various lesson in civic engagement, interacting with public officials, policy makers in the nation's capital and in their home communities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 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: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $227.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -83.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -29.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $395K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.