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Black Leadership Pennsylvania

EIN 93-3532610 Philadelphia, PA

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Revenue 2024
$3,638,224
Expenses 2024
$3,218,748

Program services were 93.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
1735 Market Street Suite 125-418

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

BLPA's mission is to increase Black voter turnout and advance a bold policy agenda that improves Black Pennsylvanians' economic, social, and political well-being. Through grassroots organizing, advocacy, leadership development, and strategic partnerships, BLPA seeks to build Black political power, shape public policy, and create lasting change.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Black Leadership Pennsylvania (BLPA) is dedicated to empowering Black Pennsylvanians by educating, engaging, and mobilizing them to vote in elections and take action on key policy issues affecting their communities.

  • Voter Registration and Education: Black Leadership Pennsylvania (BLPA) to empower citizens with the knowledge and tools needed to participate confidently in elections. BLPA worked to explain the voting process, key deadlines and educated voters on how to make informed decisions. BLPA also assisted individuals with registered to vote and verifying their registration status.

    Expenses $1,913,619 · Grants $270,000

  • Contributions to BLP Fed PAC: BLPA contributed to BLP Fed PAC for 527 exempt function activities.

    Expenses $1,100,000

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.

  • Joe Hill

    Director, Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jasmine Sessoms

    Director, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leigh Whitaker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Pearson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brittany Smith

    Director, Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ryan Boyer

    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
    $3,638,224
    Expenses
    $3,218,748
    Contributions
    $3,638,224
    Grants paid
    $270,000

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Brittany Smith
Mailing address
1735 Market Street Suite 125-418Philadelphia PA 19103

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.