Passing the Crown Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 394260845
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3474062046
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,201
- Expenses
- $177,359
- Assets
- $53,842
- Liabilities
- $55,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Juliette Jones (Founding CEO President of the Board)
People named in this filing
- Juliette Jones (Founding CEO President of the Board)
- Randi Fleckenstine (VP Secretary of the Board)
- Monique Brooks Roberts (Treasurer 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
Passing the Crown Foundation Inc amplifies the power legacy and leadership of intergenerational women and gender-expansive artists through community-centered performance education and programming Rooted in the brilliance of women in hip-hop and elevated through multidisciplinary artistry we integrate music dance and cultural storytelling to create world-class experiences that demonstrate the depth excellence and abundance of women leaders across artistic and production roles
What it reported doing in 2025
Produced Passing the Crown Celebrating the Queens of Hip-Hop at Lincoln Centers David Geffen Hall October 2025 headlined by MC Lyte with special appearance by Rapsody and DJ Perly The production employed an all-female and gender-expansive ensemble of orchestral musicians dancers and a live DJ serving approximately 2500 audience members in New York City
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0
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: -0.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.