San Francisco African-American Historical & Cultural Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
941721596
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4159296172
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,421
Expenses
$52,517
Assets
$81,775
Liabilities
$2,850

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALFRED W WILLIAMS (Chairman and President)
  • William Hoskins (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • ALFRED W WILLIAMS (Chairman and President)
  • William Hoskins (Executive Director)
  • Andrew Howard (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

To educate African Americans and the public at large about the history and culture of San Francisco's African American community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Activities and Exhibits: The Book Club, sponsored jointly with the African American Center at the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, continued every other month. Black History Month Kick-off at City Hall, February 7, 2025 with John Templeton keynote speaker and theme of ? African Americans and Labor.? The exhibit, ? Sargent Claude Johnson: A Mid-Twentieth Century California African American Artist,? was launched in June 2025 and extended into late 2025 in a new exhibit, ? Black Creativity, featuring 5 creative figures, including Johnson, Montford Cardwell, Mary Ellen Pleasant and Carlos Martinez. An information table was available at the SFPL, Main Branch, second annual Genealogy conference. The Society held a Jonestown Remembrance Anniversary, featuring Captain Yulanda Williams, survivor.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75

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: -240.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.