Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025
Filed by PAN AFRICAN CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $124,155
- Total expenses
- $457,006
- Contributions and grants received
- $118,658
- Grants paid
- $3,675
- Program service revenue
- $3,875
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $6
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $1,616
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $117,070
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $90,206
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $26,864
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $428,728
Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
The purpose of PACE is to elevate the quality of life for people of African heritage across the globe. We use modern, cross-disciplinary tools to deconstruct the systems that oppress our communities and build human-centered, tech-powered solutions.
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The Union functions as a cultural space, innovation hub, coworking space, and media lab. In Q4 of 2024, it expanded its media mission through structural upgrades and equipment investments to deepen support for creatives, artists, and entrepreneurs. In 2025 The Union served 1285 individuals
Expenses $342,983 · Grants $825
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PACE seeks to elevate the quality of life of people of African heritage across the globe. We use modern, cross-disciplinary tools to deconstruct the systems that oppress our communities and build human-centered, tech-powered solutions in their place. PACE served 2130 individuals in 2025.
Expenses $42,873 · Grants $850
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Solo Magic is a non-profit arts initiative that collaborates with innovative artists to create socially relevant work and provide a platform for sharing and discussing art as activism. Solo Magic served 150 individuals in 2025.
Expenses $21,436
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SEA619 is a new kind of business organization, incubator and accelerator that equips founders, creators and business owners of African descent with the tools, network and resources to survive scale and soar. SEA619 launched in June 2025.
Expenses $10,718
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Shoe Express by Soul Repair LLC is PACE's newest workforce development program that teaches people the time-honored trade of leather repair and cobbling so that they can participate in the burgeoning circular economy, an economic system based on the reuse and regeneration of materials or products that support sustainability.
Expenses $10,718 · Grants $2,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jade Solomon-Curtis
Chief Operating Officer
- Total calculated
- $12,000
- Compensation
- $12,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Arief Gursel
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Gail W Boyd PC
Chairman of the Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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LaSean Smith
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Treshawn Shields
Treasurer/ Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Toussaint Werner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Walter Beach lll
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 2 July 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.0
- Source object
- 202611879349200506
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