Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$994,057

Total expenses

$949,996

Contributions and grants received

$994,057

Grants paid

$158,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$599,041

Total liabilities, end of year

$23,508

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$575,533

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$492,588

Management and general expenses

$457,408

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$492,588

Program services were 51.9% 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 · 2023

• BLACK VISIONS IS A BLACK LIBERATION ORGANIZATION WHOSE WORK, EVENTS, AND PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO CREATE PUBLIC BENEFITS UNDER INTERNAL REVENUE CODE 501(C)(3), INCLUDING RELIEF OF THE BLACK POOR, DISTRESSED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED, ELIMINATION OF ANTI-BLACK PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION, LESSENING NEIGHBORHOOD TENSIONS IN BLACK COMMUNITIES, AS WELL AS COMBATING COMMUNITY DETERIORATION AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.BLACK VISIONS REORGANIZED AND RESTRUCTURED IN 2023. WE ALSO OBTAINED 501(C)(3) TAX-EXEMPT STATUS FROM THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. THESE ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS ONLY OCCURRED AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS OF PLANNING, DISCUSSION, AND DIALOGUE AMONG THE BLACK VISIONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BLACK VISIONS STAFF, AND BLACK VISIONS MEMBERS. DURING OUR YEAR OF REORGANIZATION AND RESTRUCTURING, BLACK VISIONS TERMINATED BOTH OF OUR CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS FOLLOWING A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN EACH OF THEM BY OUR ENTIRE STAFF. THEIR DEPARTURE FROM THE ORGANIZATION BIRTHED A NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN WHICH THERE IS NO SINGLE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT BLACK VISIONS, BUT INSTEAD, SIX CO-EQUAL DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS WHO MAKE DECISIONS COLLECTIVELY FOR THE ORGANIZATION BY SPLITTING APART THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF ONE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ACROSS MULTIPLE "EXPERT" DIRECTORS: THE DIRECTORS OF FINANCE, FUNDRAISING, HUMAN RESOURCES, OPERATIONS, PROGRAMMING, AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS.IN ADDITION TO THE REORGANIZATION AND RESTRUCTURING THAT OCCURRED IN 2023, OUR STAFF REDEVELOPED SEVERAL WORKPLACE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES PERTAINING TO DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT, WAGES, AND OTHER LABOR CONDITIONS. TO ENSURE WE HAD AMPLE TIME AND SPACE FOR OUR CONVERSATIONS TO REACH A CONSENSUS, THE DECISION WAS MADE BY ALL STAFF IN DECEMBER 2022 TO SUSPEND ALL EXTERNAL PROGRAMMING IN 2023 WHILE WE WORKED FOCUSED INTENSELY ON ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO OUR PROGRAMMATIC HIATUS WAS OUR YEAR-ROUND MEMBERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, WHICH CONTINUED TO SERVE THE UNMET NEEDS OF BLACK LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN MINNESOTA.

  Expenses $492,588 · Grants $158,000

As filed on the 2023 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.

Grants on this return

• MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING PROJECT

  $50,000

  TO SUPPORT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS IN MINNESOTA

• ISAIAH MN

  $40,000

  TO ORGANIZE AND MOBILIZE BLACK MINNESOTANS IN BRIDGING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP

• SEEDS WORTH SOWING

  $25,000

  TO ORGANIZE AND MOBILIZE BLACK MINNESOTANS IN SUPPORTING CAREGIVERS AND CAREWORKERS

• MY PITBULL IS FAMILY

  $25,000

  WORKING WITH BLACK FAMILIES AND THEIR PETS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202413209349304041

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