ProInspire
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300543802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2028886308
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,035,173
- Expenses
- $2,282,014
- Assets
- $2,921,231
- Liabilities
- $72,450
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bianca Anderson (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Bianca Anderson (Chief Executive Officer): $195,336 total reported compensation
- Kristen Lucas (Chief Operating Officer): $161,137 total reported compensation
- Rachel Leonidas (Director): $139,287 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ProInspire activates leaders at all levels to accelerate equity at the individual, organizational, and systems levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Influencing and Equipping the Sector: Programming and resources that influence the social sector to accelerate racial equity and leadership through research, convening, and collaboration. This includes the Self to Systems: Leading for Race Equity Impact publication, corresponding tools, and other thought leadership resources. This also includes research and partnerships across the sector and with foundations, such as the Brilliant Transformations report, the Thriving Leaders and Communities research, the Crises as a Catalyst workbooks and webinars, and the HERE to Listen tool and program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 69%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -120.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 69% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.