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BIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE

EIN 86-2965288 LONG BEACH, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,471,973
Expenses 2024
$920,776

Program services were 81.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
168 E HARCOURT ST

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

SUPPORTS MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES BY PROVIDING FULL SPECTRUM DOULA SERVICES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSIVE. WE CONNECT BIRTHING PEOPLE WITH EDUCATIONAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL SUPPORT THROUGH ALL PREGNANCY OUTCOMES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AIMS TO DECREASE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH DISPARITIES FOR MARGINALIZED BIRTHING PEOPLE.

  • DOULA TRAININGS: OUR DOULA TRAININGS STRIVE TO INCREASE THE DIVERSITY OF THE DOULA WORKFORCE AND ARE ALIGNED WITH THE RESEARCH THAT SHOWS WHEN PEOPLE FEEL REFLECTED IN THEIR SUPPORT THEIR POSITIVE HEALTH EXPERIENCES CAN INCREASE. WE TRAIN NEW AND EXPERIENCED DOULAS TO SERVE THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES, TO ADVOCATE, AND TO BE EQUIPPED WITH THE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, RESOURCES, AND NETWORK TO PROVIDE TRAUMA INFORMED SUPPORT TO THEIR CLIENTS. DOULAS ARE WELL DOCUMENTED TO BE AN ASSET TO DECREASING THE PERINATAL AND INFANT HEALTH DISPARITIES FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND WE ARE DEDICATED TO INCREASING THE NUMBER OF DOULAS IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD!

    Expenses $351,091 · Revenue $85,634

  • DOULA SERVICES: WE PROVIDE CULTURALLY RELEVANT, INCLUSIVE, AND FULL SPECTRUM DOULA SERVICES, SUPPORTING ALL PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM OUTCOMES. WE CENTER THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES INCLUDING BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES BY PROVIDING DOULA SUPPORT AND CARE THAT IS ACCESSIBLE AND ADVOCACY ROOTED. WE BELIEVE DOULAS SHOULD BE COMPENSATED FOR THEIR LABOR AND THAT THIS WORK SHOULD CREATE SUSTAINABILITY FOR DOULAS WHILE STILL BEING ACCESSIBLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE NEED BUT CAN'T AFFORD IT. WE OFFER THESE SERVICES THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS INCLUDING OUT OF POCKET, SLIDING SCALE, GRANT FUNDED SERVICES, MEDI-CAL/MEDI-CAID, AND CLINICS/PARTNERSHIPS/HOSPITALS/INSTITUTIONS/JAILS.

    Expenses $329,242 · Revenue $143,497

  • WORKSHOP AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION: OUR COLLECTIVE IS MADE UP OF A WIDE VARIETY OF CULTURAL AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS, OF PROFESSIONS, OF EXPERTS, AND OF PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS LIVED EXPERIENCES/TRADITIONS/AND KNOWLEDGE THAT ARE BENEFICIAL TO SHARE WITH THE BROADER COMMUNITIES. OUR WORKSHOPS AND EDUCATION ARE ROOTED IN ADVOCACY, IN CULTURAL RELEVANCE, AND IN INCREASING POSITIVE HEALTH EXPERIENCES WHILE FEELING EMPOWERED AND SUPPORTED. OUR WORKSHOPS AND EDUCATION RANGE FROM REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, TO INFORMED CONSENT, LACTATION SUPPORT, CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION, INDIGENOUS PRACTICES, ADVOCACY, AND MORE. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ARE OFFERINGS ARE INCLUSIVE, INTENTIONAL, AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE COMMUNITIES THEY ARE HAPPENING IN.

    Expenses $66,881

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.

  • Natalie Shovlin - Bankole

    CO - CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $800
    From this org
    $800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Emerita Bustos

    CO - CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria G Lozano

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $600
    From this org
    $600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Allese Wimberly

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brittany Lewis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stevie Merino

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $145,000
    From this org
    $145,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,471,973
    Expenses
    $920,776
    Contributions
    $1,231,587
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,097,665
    Expenses
    $266,173
    Contributions
    $1,096,786
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $47,640
    Expenses
    $68,601
    Contributions
    $46,025
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $135,000
    Expenses
    $89,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,703

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

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.