The Black Community Focus Fund Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831751421
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Rochester, NY, USA
Phone
5859669082
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,451
Expenses
$64,498
Assets
$179,786
Liabilities
$453

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Reverend Myra Brown (President/Director)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Marshall (Board Chair)
  • Herb Starks (Board Member)
  • Pamela Jackson (Board Member)

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

The corporation is formed for the charitable purpose of offering direct financial support to the poor and needy black people living in the 14605 zip code neighborhood in Rochester, New York to assist them with adequate housing, employment, schooling and business start-ups.

What it reported doing in 2024

Black Community FOCUS Fund works toward racial equity and antipoverty efforts especially in the areas of employment, housing, education and economic revitalization, focused in the Rochester New York 14605 ZIP Code neighborhood. The program has 3 components which include:1. administering a program for the city of Rochester to distribute funds which address economic poverty and social equity,2. partnering with the city of Rochester create the first outdoor civil rights, Black history educational Park, named after Minister Franklin D. Florence a civil rights leader, and3. providing limited financial assistance with transportation, food, housing, utilities, education, entrepreneurship and financial hardship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 68% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 53.8%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 53.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.