Pan African Center For Empowerment Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474502267
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
7852507372
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$124,155
Expenses
$457,006
Assets
$117,070
Liabilities
$90,206

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Arief Gursel (Executive Director)
  • LaSean Smith (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jade Solomon-Curtis (Chief Operating Officer)
  • Arief Gursel (Executive Director)
  • Gail W Boyd PC (Chairman of the Board)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The purpose of PACE is to elevate the quality of life for people of African heritage across the globe. We use modern, cross-disciplinary tools to deconstruct the systems that oppress our communities and build human-centered, tech-powered solutions.

What it reported doing in 2025

Shoe Express by Soul Repair LLC is PACE's newest workforce development program that teaches people the time-honored trade of leather repair and cobbling so that they can participate in the burgeoning circular economy, an economic system based on the reuse and regeneration of materials or products that support sustainability.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 10
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94

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: -268.1%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $429K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.