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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by ORGANIZING BLACK INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$576,911
Total expenses
$76,517
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$576,911
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$503,493
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,099
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$500,394
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$31,742
Management and general expenses
$26,375
Fundraising expenses
$18,400
Program service expenses (Part III)
$31,742

Program services were 41.5% 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.

  • 2a · Program service revenue: FOUNDATION GRANTS

    total $576,428 · related or exempt $576,428

  • 2b · Program service revenue: INDIVIDUAL DONORS

    total $483 · related or exempt $483

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $10,309 · program services $10,309

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $2,125 · program services $2,125

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $18,400 · fundraising $18,400

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,585 · program services $310 · management and general $1,275

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $35 · program services $35

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $13,039 · program services $2,968 · management and general $10,071

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $13,841 · management and general $13,841

  • 17 · Travel

    total $15,150 · program services $15,150

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,188 · management and general $1,188

  • 24a · Other expenses: GRANTS TO OTHERS

    total $750 · program services $750

  • 24b · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSES

    total $95 · program services $95

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    end of year $503,493

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    end of year $3,099

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    end of year $500,394

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

To engage in collaborative, community-oriented organizing and strategic planning with the purpose of alleviating economic, racial, and social inequity in Baltimiore City and the greater Baltimore area.

  • Transforming Public Safety in Baltimore: In 2022 through 2024 OrganizingBlack, alongside its coalition partners, successfully advocated and wonstatewide policy that would transfer governance of the Baltimore policedepartment from the state of Maryland to the city of Baltimore. Organizing Black was able to influence individuals who served on the city commission that studied this issue and made final recommendations to the city and state governing bodies. One of the members of the commission was a staff member of organizing black. Voices Towards an Equitable Baltimore City Educational System: Organizing Black successfully lobbied to pass legislation that created a state commission on elected school boards and recommend a elected school board model for Baltimore City. Currently Baltimore city has two inaugural elected school board members who was elected to their respective offices in 2022. Organizing Black leaders were apart of the initial advocacy that led to Baltimore citys current hybrid school board. Ella Baker Freedom Fellowship: Organizing Black conducted its 3rd and largest community organizing training institute which trained and graduated 15 fellows from historically disadvantaged identities. Two-thirds of our fellows were able to get a job in the field of community organizing as a result of the skills and experienced they gained through OBs fellowship program.

    Expenses $31,742

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Francesca Weaks

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Michaela Brown

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Magda Phillips

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Joshua Harris

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Rashida Ogletree-George

    VICE PRESIDENTTREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
28 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403059349302870

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