Tabernacle Community Development Corporation (TCDC)
Legal name: Tabernacle Community Development Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943402767
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Phone
- (415) 206-9101
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,093,649
- Expenses
- $2,163,087
- Assets
- $9,265,389
- Liabilities
- $93,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BISHOP DONALD E GREEN (PRESIDENT)
- KIRK DAVIS Jr (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DR JAMES MCCRAY Jr (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- BISHOP DONALD E GREEN (PRESIDENT)
- KIRK DAVIS Jr (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN BLACKBURN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tabernacle Community Development Corporation (TCDC) aims to provide access to safe, clean and affordable housing—rentals and homes to buy—for working families, with an enduring mission to direct positive economic and societal changes in underserved communities. TCDC was granted tax-exempt status becoming a 501(c)(3) organization. TCDC also collaborated with the San Francisco School Board to form JUMP Academy. 2005 TCDC took the lead in forming NOVA, an ex-offenders and parole support program that collaborated with the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department and other local ex-offender programs. TCDC took the lead in forming NOVA, an ex-offenders and parole support program that collaborated with the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department and other local ex-offender programs. 2006 TCDC accomplished their first fundraiser gala. Attended by over 800 supporters, they were able to...
What it reported doing in 2024
Tabernacle community development corporation co-sponsored the annual dr. Martin luther king, jr award breakfast celebration hosted by the norcal mlk community foundation. Other accomplshments included assuming the role as fiscal agent for two grass root organizaions. The first organizations mission is to provide marketable job skills to underserved communities while the other organizations mission is to provide unserved communities with voting eduction and registratin information. Tcdc also assumed the role of fiscal agent for the consulting firm frh consultants. Frh consulting offers a wide range of tenant enrichment services to three major affordable housing projects located within san francisco.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.28; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 94.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.