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BLACK INSTITUTE INC

EIN 27-1580786 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2025
$632,489
Expenses 2025
$401,123

Program services were 68.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
2000
Street
470 VANDERBILT AVE 9TH FLOOR

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).

Other organizations at this address

17 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE BLACK INSTITUTE, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO SHAPE INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE AND IMPACT PUBLIC POLICY UNIQUELY FROM A BLACK PERSPECTIVE.

  • THE OVERALL MISSION AND FOCUS OF THE BLACK INSTITUTE (TBI) IS TO SHAPE INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE IN SUCH A WAY THAT RECONSTRUCTS THE FRAMEWORK BY WHICH PUBLIC POLICY IS DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED. MOREOVER, THE BLACK INSTITUTE WORKS TO DELIVER JUSTICE TO BLACK PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR ACROSS AMERICA AND THE DIASPORA.

    Expenses $276,416 · Revenue $116,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tuulikki Robertson

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $80,346
    From this org
    $80,346
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bertha Lewis

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $40,969
    From this org
    $40,969
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chelsea Connor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tyrone Grant

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Legall

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charisse Lowe

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lu'Shawn Thompson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carmen Wallace

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $632,489
    Expenses
    $401,123
    Contributions
    $513,636
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $337,742
    Expenses
    $393,107
    Contributions
    $232,135
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $352,661
    Expenses
    $591,880
    Contributions
    $252,339
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $497,148
    Expenses
    $691,743
    Contributions
    $420,511
    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
    $683,808
    Expenses
    $438,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $531,065

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $256,040
    Expenses
    $484,186
    Assets (EOY)
    $281,070

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,067,536
    Expenses
    $772,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $513,685

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $727,688
    Expenses
    $440,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,654

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $323,758
    Expenses
    $388,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,097

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,005
    Expenses
    $500,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,866

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,918
    Expenses
    $578,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,737

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $553,755
    Expenses
    $481,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,511

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $330,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,477

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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

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.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

  • BLACK INSTITUTE GROUP INCORPORATED

    CONSULTING · DE

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.