Narrative Nation Inc.
Legal name: Narrative Nation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823760872
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bayshore, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6314557462
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,440,603
- Expenses
- $1,692,618
- Assets
- $714,973
- Liabilities
- $30,346
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLY ALLERS (President)
Highest reported compensation
- KIMBERLY ALLERS (President): $86,667 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We champion health equity by democratizing how the story of health disparities is told. By us, for us.
What it reported doing in 2025
Narrative nation champions health equity by democratizing how the story of healthdisparities is told.. We co-create culturally relevant, narrative-centered, multi-media communication, by people of color for people of color, to foster systtmicchange, transform current health messaging and communication practices and catalyzebehavioral shifts to eradicate health disparities. We also educate, train and mentorthe youth to become the next generation of health storytellers. Our unique, by us forus approach, puts members of the most affected communities at , the center of ourtheory of change. Ultimately, we shift the narrative of health disparities byshifting the narrator. And we make it possible for a much broader group of peoples'stories to be heard and validated; democratizing access to developing anddisseminating the narratives that shape our understanding of the world around us.webelieve that a critical element to shifting health behaviors is ultimately abouthuman interaction and narrative communication the most basic mode of humaninteraction not just the science, data and evidence-based approach. Primarily rootedin and dictated by dominant culture standards. Most importantly, we believe who istelling the story matters and that health equity is at its core a racial justiceissue. To thatend, we engage and connect skilled african american and latinojournalists writers, filmmakers and other creatives of color and harness theircollective power, media expertise and cultural knowledge to address the greatestpublic health challenge and most pernicious social injustice of our time.
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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -17.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.