Racial Justice Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923157623
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Somerville, MA, USA
Phone
9784944225
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,719
Expenses
$53,979
Assets
$42,776
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frank Eason (President)

People named in this filing

  • Frank Eason (President)
  • Jordana Hart (Director)
  • Diane Wong (Treasurer)

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 Racial Justice Collaborative (RJC) fosters racial equity and community healing by helping people learn to engage emotions as skillfully as thoughts. We believe that sustainable justice begins with emotional regulation the ability to notice, name, and transform emotional energy during difficult dialogue. In a society that prizes intellect but neglects emotion, this work provides the missing key to authentic connection and reconciliation. Rooted in Somerville, Massachusetts and extending virtually to a growing national and international audience, RJC creates spaces where people of all racial and cultural backgrounds can build trust, explore anti-Blackness, and develop the inner skills necessary for social and collective transformation. Our Approach RJC integrates racial truth-telling, emotional awareness, and community dialogue to help participants move from reactivity to responsiveness, from fear to compassion, and from division to relationship. Our programs combine breathwork

What it reported doing in 2025

White South African Refugees and the Myth of Reverse Racism ? A timely public discussion examining the unfounded claim of Afrikaner genocide, the enduring myth of reverse racism, and the history behind it, featuring RJC member Christina Balch and historian Dr. Chris Conz, who had recently returned from nine months of Fulbright Scholar research in South Africa. The event provided participants with practical tools for emotional regulation, compassionate communication, and relationship repair across racial differences, supporting RJC? s mission of fostering racial equity and community healing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - 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: 82
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.