New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

The New York Civil Rights Coalition (aka NYCRC) is a 501c3 tax-exempt charitable nonprofit organization, led by Michael Meyers, a prominent civil rights leader, trained and mentored by the renowned social psychologist and civil rights icon Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, whose research was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its unanimous ruling of Brown v. Board of Education that concluded that separate public schools for minority-group children was "inherently unequal." Meyers is the city's, indeed nation's leading integrationists, cut from the same cloth and ideology of his mentors, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, and Roy Wilkins, the past executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, who hired Meyers as Assistant National Director in 1975. Meyers was on the national staff of the renowned NAACP fo ten years, staying in New York once the NAACP National Offices relocated to Baltimore, MD. After his almost ten years with the NAACP, Meyers joined the staff of T. Edward Hollander, then the nation's leading Chancellor of Higher Education, with headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey. Meyers was at the New Jersey Department of Higher Education for almost five years, leaving upon Chancellor Ted Hollander's retirement from the post of Higher Education Chief there. In 9086, Meyers co-founded (with several New York-based civil rights leaders) the New York Civil Rights Coalition. In these past decades Meyers has emerged on the city-scene, and, indeed, nationwide as a fierce advocate of racial equality and of racially-integrated schools and living. He proudly carries the banner of the racial integrationists who trained him--and modeled the civil rights movement--Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, and Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark; Roy Wilkins, of the NAACP; Bayard Rustin, the Coordinator of the famed March on Washington. D.C.; and Nat Hentoff, the writer and civil libertarian with whom Meyers served on the National Board of the American Civil Liberties Union, and on the New York State Board of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Meyers' other mentors include the famed leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer, and Morris Milgram, an early advocate and sponsor of open housing, which included buying all-white housing developments to open them up to all without the barrier of color discrimination. At the ACLU, as an intern, Michael Meyers was mentored by the likes of Jack Pemberton, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Ira Glasser, who succeeded Aryeh Neier as the ACLU's chief executive. Meyers was a fan and critic of Eleanor Holmes Norton, then the Assistant Legal Director of the ACLU. He and Eleanor Holmes Norton clashed over the black dorm that Antioch College opened for black students only. Meyers, the integrationist, filed the civil rights complaint with the then federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that complaint led to an order from the federal government that Antioch integrate or close the racially-separate "black dorm and its companion AASI, racially-segregated (i.e. all-Black) Afro-American Studies Institute. Even before the feds ordered Antioch College to comply with Title VI law, which prohibited racially-organized and separate facilities at federally-financed colleges/college facilities, Dr. Kenneth Clark had resigned from the Board of Trustees of Antioch College. In that same year, Antioch College replaced him on the trustees board with Eleanor Holmes Norton (an Antioch College alumna) who had backed the racially-exclusionary AASI and black dorm at the college's Yellow Springs, Ohio campus. Over the decades, Michael Meyers, and the New York Civil Rights Coalition, have become the nation's boldest and most reliable opponents of racially-separate, government endorsed facilities and schooling. The New York Civil Rights Coalition was at the center of the opposition to separate public schools for black boys, and before the government changed its policy to accommodate sep

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -90%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.18; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 47.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings