The Civil Rights Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473792049
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6463802000
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,512
- Expenses
- $611,426
- Assets
- $1,312,048
- Liabilities
- $1,904,945
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REVEREND AL SHARPTON (PRESIDENT, C0-CHAIR BOARD)
People named in this filing
- REVEREND AL SHARPTON (PRESIDENT, C0-CHAIR BOARD)
- ALLEN ROSKOFF (SECRETARY)
- LINDA STASI (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
To raise funds that will be used to create a civil rights museum located in the city of New York and any other purpose for which corporatoins may be organized under the not-for-profit law as a charitable organization.
What it reported doing in 2024
A vision study was conducted for the development of the foundation's proposed museum of civil rights in New York city (the "museum project").the museum of civil rights will powerfully link civil rights history to ongoing contemporary movements. Visitors will explore immersive, multidisciplinary exhibits on the history of the northern civil rights movement and take part in social justice activism within the museum. Inspired by participatory democracy, a central tenet of civil rights movement history, mcr is envisioned as an institution that promotes active learning. A series of dynamic programmatic spaces will be embedded within the fabric of the museum. Continued on schedule o these include a state-of-the-art laboratory for creative arts and media connected to social justice; a community-curated gallery to showcase local talent; a forum for conferences and symposia; and a rooftop teaching garden.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 4
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -4,113.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.45; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 4.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $225K reported
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.