Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,947,580
- Total expenses
- $2,615,794
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,930,773
- Grants paid
- $150,000
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $16,807
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,851,822
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $267,317
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,584,505
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $2,438,779
- Management and general expenses
- $177,015
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $2,438,779
Program services were 93.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,930,773
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3 · Investment income
total $16,807 · related or exempt $16,807
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $150,000 · program services $150,000
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $303,044 · program services $303,044
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $263,915 · program services $263,915
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $16,413 · program services $16,413
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $44,507 · program services $44,507
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $28,550 · management and general $28,550
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $474,064 · program services $359,927 · management and general $114,137
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $242,738 · program services $242,738
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $127,237 · program services $122,280 · management and general $4,957
-
17 · Travel
total $730,494 · program services $730,494
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $118,070 · program services $106,906 · management and general $11,164
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24a · Other expenses: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY
total $67,226 · program services $67,226
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24b · Other expenses: MEALS & ENTERTAINMENT
total $20,008 · program services $20,008
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24c · Other expenses: Office Expense
total $17,300 · management and general $17,300
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24d · Other expenses: Payroll fees
total $3,289 · program services $3,289
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24e · All other expenses
total $8,939 · program services $8,032 · management and general $907
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $2,655,322 · end of year $1,756,898
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $94,924
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $386,340 · end of year $241,828
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $16,263 · end of year $25,489
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,252,719 · end of year $1,584,505
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
BME IS A GROWING NETWORK OF ALL RACES AND GENDERS COMMITTED TO BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE U.S. BME IS BUILT UPON BLACK FATHERS, COACHES, BUSINESSMEN AND STUDENTS WHO LEAD BY EXAMPLE TO STRENGTHEN NEIGHBORHOODS, MENTOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND CREATE BUSINESSES. EACH DAY THEY HELP TO CHANGE OUR FUTURES FOR THE BETTER. BME COMMUNITY RAISES THE AWARENESS OF BLACK MEN AS ASSETS TO SOCIETY AND UPLIFTS THEIR POSITIVE NARRATIVES, ENGAGES PEOPLE OF ALL RACE AND GENDERS DIRECTLY IN COMMUNITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES AND NETWORKS RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY GROWTH.
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BMe Community is ranked top by The Bridgespan Group for how it builds leadership communities that positively impact leaders, communities, and systems. Foundations and corporations fund BMe to run charitable leadership retreats, engagement programs, summits and training but BMe is not an events company. Instead, BMe uses cognitive and social psychology to build ultra-high impact leadership communities through those services.Since its founding in 2013, participants in BMe-run programs report that BMe is incredibly effective at building trust between them, 100% collaborate, and 88% achieve greater impact while improving their own health and wellness. BMe also teaches the breakthrough social psychology framework called Asset-Framing which has been key to historic fundraising and systems-changing successes including marriage equality, the expansion of voting rights, human rights, educational and economic opportunity. Asset-Framing succeeds where traditional approaches fail because it shows leaders how to appeal to people of all parties and races without compromising anyones values. BMe builds ultra-high impact Leadership Communities.
Expenses $2,438,779
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
-
Trabian ShortersTRABIAN SHORTERS
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $192,878
- From this org
- $192,878
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $192,878
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $192,878
-
Sarah Bouchereau
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $110,166
- From this org
- $110,166
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Bruce Weinberg CPA
CFO
- Total calculated
- $24,050
- From this org
- $24,050
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 7
-
Sulaiman Rahman
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dwayne EdwardsDWAYNE EDWARDS
Board Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Marlon HillMARLON HILL
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Pamela Jolly
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
None.
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 8 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202642519349301329
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