Roots of Justice

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460965188
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
5396649926
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Minority Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,546
Expenses
$68,485
Assets
$87,400
Liabilities
$1,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • TONYA NICOLE FEWELL (CO-DIRECTOR)
  • CALENTHIA DOWDY (ACTING EXEC)
  • BETHANY STEWART (CO-DIRECTOR)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Training programs & consulting for dismantling racism.

What it reported doing in 2024

Retreats, including the following: roj antiracism process, which helps teams dismantle racism within their institution or community. Set free, for people of color who want to explore the ways they have internalized racist oppression. Fire & clay, a retreat for white people who want to explore internalized racist superiority.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 39.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.