Tendea Family
Legal name: Tendea Family Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861977333
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- (443) 377-2349
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $313,409
- Expenses
- $316,288
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Elijah Miles (Chairman)
- Sunnah Muhammad (Treasurer)
- Nicholas Fullard (Secretary)
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
The mission of Tendea Family is to advance Baltimore9s Black community by operating transformative initiatives focused on identity, self improvement, community service and development. The mission of Tendea Family is to advance Baltimore’s Black community by operating transformative initiatives focused on identity, self improvement, community service and development. We’ve held over 270 community cleanups, given groceries to over 900 families during the pandemic and taught for over 10,000 hours about Black History. We host weekly community cleanups, Sisters' Dinners, Black History classes, and men's networking sessions, violence intervention programs. We have been a consistent force in Baltimore City. OUR FOUNDER.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Cadet Program is a youth diversion program that currently pays 20 youth between the ages of 10-18 youth get hands-on training with leadership speaking and grassroots organizing. The Mission of Tendeas Cadet Program is to use education community service and leadership development to prepare youth for the responsibility of uplifting their community. In addition to the 20 youth officially within the program we have served over 100 youth. Every Sunday organizers engage with community members by giving out FREE clothes food and resources that they may need. Together organizers and community members clean the neighborhood mediate conflict and network with everyone who comes out.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $316K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.