Society of the First African Families of English America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862721978
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Palmyra, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4086087749
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,633
- Expenses
- $4,596
- Assets
- $19,091
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- D Cornwall (President General)
- R Murphy (President General Emeritus)
People named in this filing
- D Cornwall (President General)
- R Murphy (President General Emeritus)
- J Long (Secretary General)
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 Society of the First African Families of English America is dedicated to researching, preserving, and honoring the history and genealogy of the earliest African families in English America. Through scholarship, education, and public engagement, the Society documents their contributions and works to ensure their stories are recognized as an essential part of the American founding. Our mission is to advance historical truth, promote genealogical research, and safeguard this legacy for future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
We entered into a partnership with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to undertake a project named "Revolutionary Massachusetts: Stories of Promise and Progress" which is a public humanities initiative to recover the stories of African, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous patriots whose sacrifices during the American Revolution have too often been excluded from public memory. College students and community members will explore these histories through archival research, oral testimony, tribal knowledge, and descendant voices. They will join arts and literature workshops led by historians, artists, faculty, cultural leaders, and Wampanoag representatives. Through writing, visual art, and performance, students will wrestle with Revolutionary ideals and exclusions, producing unique and creative work, culminating in a public symposium and performance day to showcase the results of thier work and the project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.15; rating input score 81; 81st 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: 71% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.