While We Are Still Here Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473980592
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9292663592
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,018
- Expenses
- $334,429
- Assets
- $23,476
- Liabilities
- $5,976
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE RENEE PAYNE (President)
People named in this filing
- KAREN D TAYLOR (Executive Dir.)
- JUNE WATSON BENJAMIN (BOARD MEMBER)
- STEPHANIE RENEE PAYNE (President)
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
While we are still here (wwsh) will educate, enshrine and preserve the extraordinary legacy of harlem as an influential incubator that was vital to the intellectual, cultural, social and political advancements of the harlem community as well as the african diaspora.
What it reported doing in 2024
While We Are Still Here presented various programs and developed several projects over this period. TO SUPPORT CAPACITY BUILDING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE PROGRAMMING THAT WORKS TO AMPLIFY AND PREVENT THE ERASURE OF HARLEM'S DISTINCT HISTORY.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
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: -568.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $243K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.