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Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
720975987
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Shreveport, LA, USA
Phone
3186366172
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$96,619
Expenses
$107,310
Assets
$13,945
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Odessa White (Officer)
  • Lucinda Thornton (Officer)
  • Mark Cooper (officer)

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 program is to provide community resources and mental health awareness. The program seeks to build self respect, character, leadership, mental discipline, physical discipline and good academic behavior. The program continues to have Zoom Sessions as well as in-person meetings and workshops. Some the things that were covered included race, diversity, what can I do?, how money makes an impact. The program offered workshops and meetings to youth and their parents/caregivers. The program expanded this year to reach out t0 children with autism, sickle cell and at risk boys.

What it reported doing in 2025

The program is to support families with group seminars and workshops. The program holds several Sessions and cover various topics not covered in school. Some the things that were covered included race, diversity, what can I do?, how money makes an impact. We were able to partner with the Court system to work with parents and children who are at risk. The program also addresses self esteem peer pressure, and problem solving. The focus group is ages 12-18 and their parents/caregiver. The program is named Strong African American Families Teens (SAAFT)

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.2%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.2% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $95K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.