Nora Chipaumire Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932146674
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6175714742
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $670,726
- Expenses
- $399,002
- Assets
- $280,118
- Liabilities
- $3,359
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nora Chipaumire (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Nora Chipaumire (President): $28,500 total reported compensation
- Alla Kovgan (Treasurer): $7,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The specific and primary purpose of nora inc. is to engage in educational and charitable activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, including, but not limited to, (a) educating the public about Zimbabwean art and culture, stereotypes regarding Africa and the Black performing body, and the pernicious history and legacy of colonialism (the ? Educational Purposes?), and (b) providing charitable services to artists throughout the world, including in Harare, Zimbabwe, via a female-run cultural space.
What it reported doing in 2024
DAMBUDZO is a new anti-genre work by nora chipaumire exploring colonial legacies and the revolutionary potential of performance. Combining sound, painting, sculpture, and embodied performance, it takes audiences through an immersive experience of resistance and awakening. It premiered in Vienna in 2024 and will tour the U.S. and Europe through 2025. The work features a cast of eight performers and is staged in a shabini? a reimagined bar space of political and social gathering. DAMBUDZO is a commission of Wiener Festwochen and Festival d? Automne ? Paris, produced by nora chipaumire inc. and developed in residency with Callie? s in Berlin, Germany. It is funded by the Visual Arts Project Fund of the Goethe-Institut. nora chipaumire inc. is supported by the Mellon Foundation
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.3%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.3% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $351K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.