National Black Prosecutors Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363899563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 4045935459
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $593,329
- Expenses
- $684,111
- Assets
- $319,675
- Liabilities
- $15,644
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Veronica Walker (Vice President Legislative)
- Blair Baker (Vice President of Communic)
- Kristina Mills (President)
- Lauryn Day (President-Elect)
- Candice Smith (Vice President Programs)
- Kyle Stone (Vice President Planning)
People named in this filing
- Veronica Walker (Vice President Legislative)
- Blair Baker (Vice President of Communic)
- Cornelius Pope (Regional Director Eastern)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the NBPA is reflected in the organization's commitment to the recruitment of blacks within the prosecutorial arm of the legal profession. To ensure the retention of blacks in prosecution.
What it reported doing in 2024
The National Black Prosecutors Association (NBPA) hosted its 41st Annual Conference and Job Fair at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was held August 3 through August 10, 2024. An estimated 400 lawyers attended. There were more than 1,200 minutes of Continuing Legal Education programming provided during the conference. An in-person job fair promoting the hiring of Black prosecutors was conducted on August 6, 2024. More than 40 employers participated in the job fair, including state and federal prosecuting offices. During the fiscal year the organization also created numerous continuing legal education training programs specifically tailored to modern prosecution issues. The organization also held numerous social and community events to promote diversity in the field of prosecution.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -15.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $646K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.