Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$4,684,554

Total expenses

$10,759,094

Contributions and grants received

$4,618,133

Grants paid

$642,992

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$835

Other revenue

$65,586

Total assets, end of year

$28,875,389

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,973,187

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$25,902,202

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,013,945

Management and general expenses

$5,417,111

Fundraising expenses

$328,038

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,013,945

Program services were 46.6% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• FRONTLINE ORGANIZING - WE ARE PARTNERING WITH ON-THE-GROUND LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL THAT CENTER ABOLITIONIST PRINCIPLES AND ARE BUILDING RADICAL BLACK ORGANIZING MODELS ROOTED IN BLACK POWER, SELF-DETERMINATION AND SUPPORT OF SYSTEM IMPACTED FAMILIES. WE ARE HELPING TO KEEP ABOLITIONIST FRONTLINE ORGANIZERS AND ACTIVISTS SAFE BY PROVIDING SECURITY SERVICES (BOTH DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL) FOR THEM. WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND ALIGNED ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENT A THREAT TO ORGANIZERS AND ACTIVISTS AND OUR MISSION WILL NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED IF THESE FREEDOM FIGHTERS ARE NOT KEPT SAFE.

  Expenses $1,987,669 · Grants $213,333

• ARTS PROGRAM - WE ARE CONCENTRATING ON THE NEXUS OF ART AND ACTIVISM IN PURSUIT OF BLACK LIBERATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF BLACK CREATIVITY. WE SUPPORT EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED INDIVIDUAL BLACK ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. IN ADDITION TO UPLIFTING THE VOICES OF THE BLACK ARTS COMMUNITY, THIS PROGRAM SERVES AS A CONNECTION POINT TO PROVIDE ART EXPOSURE AND EDUCATION FOR COMMUNITIES THAT ARE OFTEN LEFT OUT, PARTICULARLY FOR YOUTH. THROUGH THIS PROGRAM, WE HAVE PURCHASED A PROPERTY THAT HAS A PRODUCTION STUDIO AND OFFICE/COMMUNAL SPACES THAT SERVES AS OUR ARTISTIC HEADQUARTERS AND ALLOWS US TO EFFECTIVELY MEET OUR PROGRAMMATIC OBJECTIVES, INCLUDING: CREATING CUTTING EDGE CONTENT ABOUT ABOLITION AND OUR WELL-BEING, CONVENE ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING LEADERS IN THE GLOBAL ARTS COMMUNITY; RUN ART ACTIVATIONS, CREATE AND CURATE ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES (FILM, TELEVISION, THEATER, ETC.); AND RUN AN AMBASSADOR AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TO REACH NEW AUDIENCES.

  Expenses $1,104,676 · Grants $68,333

• CULTURE - WE ARE UPLIFTING AND INVESTING IN BLACK CULTURE THAT PROPELS US TO DREAM BIG AND CREATE THE COMMUNITY WE WANT AND NEED TO FLOURISH, GROW, AND THRIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, "THE BLACK LIVES MATTER JOY EXPERIENCE" IS A CULTURAL INTERVENTION THAT FORCES PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE POWER OF JOY. WITHOUT JOY, WE WON'T ACHIEVE LIBERATION. WITHOUT JOY, WE WON'T SURVIVE. WITHOUT JOY, WE WILL NEVER HEAL. AND WITHOUT JOY, WE CAN'T LOVE RADICALLY. BUT THROUGH THE EXPERIENCE OF BLACK JOY, WE WILL CONJURE UP DREAMS OF FREEDOM THAT OUR ANCESTORS WILL BE PROUD OF AND THAT PROPEL US CLOSER TO OUR DESIRED GLOBAL SOCIETY.

  Expenses $1,089,071 · Grants $35,333

• HEALING JUSTICE - WE ARE BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF HEALING AND NURTURING ECOSYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY OPPRESSIVE STRUCTURES AND INJUSTICE. TO THAT END, WE ARE CREATING GLOBAL INITIATIVES THAT BUILD COALITIONS AMONGST COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS, LEADERS, AND ORGANIZERS; AND SUPPORTING THE WORK OF ORGANIZATIONS AS THEY SUPPORT BLACK-LED AND INTERSECTIONAL MOVEMENT WORK LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, BY BUILDING CAPACITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, MEMBERSHIP, AND PRESENCE; PROVIDING SEED FUNDING; DEVELOPING PROGRAMMING; PROVIDING TRAININGS; AND PROVIDING PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND COMMUNICATIONS.

  Expenses $357,000 · Grants $175,575

• RESEARCH & EDUCATION - WE ARE INVESTING IN MODERN-DAY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOCUSING ON ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORKS AND CURRICULUM AROUND BLACK HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND BLACK FUTURES. WE ARE LEADING PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS TO IMPROVE AND CHANGE THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS FOR BLACK PEOPLE (WHICH WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE POSITIVE IMPACTS FOR ALL PEOPLE), THROUGH INVESTING IN OTHER PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCTING RESEARCH, IN PERSON ACTIVATIONS, TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER MULTIMEDIA CAMPAIGNS FOCUSING ON RACIAL INJUSTICE, POLICE BRUTALITY, CRIMINAL LEGAL TRANSFORMATIONS, BLACK IMMIGRATION, ECONOMIC INJUSTICE, LGBTQIA+ AND HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE, ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION, AND VOTING RIGHTS AND SUPPRESSION. THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES PARTNERING WITH BLACK STUDENTS AND THEIR CAMPUS COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

  Expenses $267,412 · Grants $102,085

• POLICY - WE ARE INTERVENING ON EXISTING AND NEW POLICIES THAT REIMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT PUNITIVE MEASURES AND CREATE A WORLD WHERE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE ALL THAT WE NEED: FOOD, EDUCATION, HOUSING, HEALTH CARE, CLEAN WATER, BREATHABLE AIR, AND EVERYTHING THAT IS FOUNDATIONAL TO PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY SAFETY. THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES NON-PARTISAN VOTER EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS.

  Expenses $208,117 · Grants $48,333

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• I AM SAC FOUNDATION INC

  $200,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC

  $180,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• FII NATIONAL (FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE DBA UPTOGETHER)

  $68,250

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• WACO THEATER CENTER

  $60,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• THE TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION INC

  $50,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• LOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN

  $30,632

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• HOLLYWOOD CARES FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• BLACK CO-NETWORKS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE ICO GLOBAL EXCHANGE

  $15,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

• VOICE BUFFALO INC

  $10,000

  TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITIES

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• BLACK LIVES MATTER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

  527 · SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY LEADERS, ACTIVISTS, & WORKING-CLASS CANDIDATES · DC · controlled entity

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

10 May 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202441349349300849

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