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OUR COMMUNITY FIRST ACTION INC

EIN 99-3511630 BEVERLY, MA

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Revenue 2024
$8,500,000
Expenses 2024
$8,049,736

Program services were 70.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
138 CONANT ST 401

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

12 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 · 2024

Mission

COMMUNITY FIRST IS AN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROMOTING PUBLIC POLICIES THAT RESTORE DIGNITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND PROSPERITY TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. THROUGH CULTURALLY RELEVANT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, INCLUDING CONCERTS AND MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, THE ORGANIZATION EDUCATES AND EMPOWERS AMERICANS - ESPECIALLY YOUNG BLACK MEN - TO UNDERSTAND, SUPPORT, AND ADVOCATE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE POLICY SOLUTIONS LIKE THE O-PLAN.

  • COMMUNITY FIRST PRODUCED CULTURALLY RELEVANT CONCERT EVENTS AND CIVIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS TO PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND SUPPORT FOR THE O-PLAN, A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, EDUCATION ACCESS, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $5,670,751 · Grants $2,020,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Shafron Hawkins

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Allen Dewane

    SECRETARY AND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Christopher Smith

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,500,000
    Expenses
    $8,049,736
    Contributions
    $8,500,000
    Grants paid
    $2,020,000

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.