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BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE

EIN 20-5686374 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2024
$3,294,031
Expenses 2024
$3,822,157

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P40
Classification
1000
Street
901 NE GLISAN ST SUITE 250

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE EDUCATES AND MOBILIZES THE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF BLACK AND MULTI-ETHNIC CHILDREN TO ENSURE THEY ACHIEVE SUCCESS. FAMILIES OF BLACK AND MULTI-ETHNIC CHILDREN WILL BREAK GENERATIONAL CYCLES, ACHIEVING FINANCIAL, EDUCATIONAL, HEALTH AND SPIRITUAL SUCCESS AND WELL-BEING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE EDUCATES AND MOBILIZES THE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF BLACK AND MULTI-ETHINIC CHILDREN TO ENSURE THEY ACHIEVE SUCCESS.

  • BPI'S TOGETHER WE CAN (FIRST 1,000 DAYS) HOME VISITING PROGRAM SERVED 69 BLACK PARENTS AND CHILDREN WITH 212 VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON HOME VISITS AND A ROBUST ARRAY OF VIRTUAL GROUP OFFERINGS DESIGNED TO BOTH PROMOTE CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BUILD COMMUNITY AMONG PARTICIPATING FAMILIES. SACRED ROOTS PROVIDED BLACK PREGNANT WOMEN WITH EDUCATION, EMOTIONAL, TECHNICAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT THROUGH VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON AND GROUP FORMATS; SERVICES COVERED ALL PERIODS OF A WOMAN'S PREGNANCY JOURNEY, FROM PRENATAL THROUGH POSTPARTUM, INCLUDING BREASTFEEDING. OUR SACRED ROOTS DOULA AND MOBILE LACTATION SERVICES PROGRAM SUPPORTED 129 PORTLAND MOTHERS DELIVERING 133 BABIES. OUR LACTATION SERVICES SERVED 65 WOMEN AND BABIES.

    Expenses $1,970,894

  • SAWUBONA SCHOOL PROGRAM: COMMUNITY EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OUTREACH. FOCUSES ON LITERACY, CULTURALLY SPECIFIC PARENTING AND ADVOCACY. BPI ACHIEVED THESE GOALS THROUGH OUR WORK WITH PARENTS AND STUDENTS AT FIVE PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS; PROGRAMMING INCLUDED ONE-ON-ONE LITERACY TUTORING FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND STUDENT AFFINITY GROUPS AND FILM-MAKING PROJECTS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. THESE ACTIVITIES SUPPORT LITERACY, POSITIVE CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY/COMMUNITY CONNECTION.FY 2023-2024; FOCUSED ON TWO STRATEGIES: 1) CULTURALLY SPECIFIC FAMILY ENGAGEMENT AND 2) CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND ADVOCACY. BPI SERVED 116 STUDENTS WITH DIRECT SERVICES.

    Expenses $911,907

  • BLACK FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER PROVIDED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY SUPPORT, AS WELL AS COVID-19 RELIEF, HOUSING SUPPORT, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, BASIC NEEDS SUPPORT AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES TO HELP CLIENTS SECURE ECONOMIC STABILITY THROUGH EMPLOYMENT SEARCH AND PLACEMENT. BPI ALSO PROVIDED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY. THE RESOURCE CENTER SERVED UPWARDS OF 500 INDIVIDUALS.

    Expenses $515,035

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BAHIA OVERTON

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $173,809
    From this org
    $160,809
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,809
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,000
    Filer's total
    $173,809

  • SEAN BRANNON

    Finance Dir.

    Total calculated
    $142,324
    From this org
    $129,832
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,492
    Hours/week
    40

  • VELYNN BROWN

    PROGRAMS DIR

    Total calculated
    $117,101
    From this org
    $109,568
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,533
    Hours/week
    40

  • IRIS BELL

    Interim Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • KEVIN MODICA

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIK SELDEN

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY KLUSKY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW TSCHABOLD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TYLER AHN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROY ROOSEVELT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JR DUPERRIER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMAAL BROWN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ART WILLIAMS

    Director

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,294,031
    Expenses
    $3,822,157
    Contributions
    $3,290,112
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,207,934
    Expenses
    $3,074,887
    Contributions
    $3,205,284
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,152,482
    Expenses
    $3,185,747
    Contributions
    $3,144,610
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,328,985
    Expenses
    $2,611,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,949,894

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,294,014
    Expenses
    $1,725,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,113,370

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,060,269
    Expenses
    $757,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $612,184

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $462,450
    Expenses
    $751,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,325

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,090,805
    Expenses
    $1,171,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $527,653

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,117,863
    Expenses
    $975,697
    Assets (EOY)
    $628,738

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $918,076
    Expenses
    $812,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,280

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,683
    Expenses
    $523,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,588

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,880
    Expenses
    $327,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $149,694

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $507,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,788

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.