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247 BLAC

EIN 90-1179763 WATERLOO, IA

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Revenue 2024
$454,908
Expenses 2024
$461,584

Program services were 70.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S300
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2031

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

COORDINATION OF REDEVELOPMENT EFFORTS

  • BLACK BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACCELERATOR BBEA Vitality Mastermind Series - In 2024 we launched the Vitality Mastermind Series a focused set of workshops designed to strengthen the skills and confidence of emerging Black entrepreneurs. The series covered essential business topics including goal setting knowing your numbers required tax filings and how to effectively pitch your business. Each session provided practical tools expert guidance and peer support to help entrepreneurs build stronger foundations and prepare for long-term success. This series deepened our impact by offering accessible culturally centered business education outside of our formal accelerator program.

    Expenses $146,995 · Grants $7,900 · Revenue $25,000

  • PROJECT HOME - In 2024 Project Home a public-private partnership focused on increasing Black homeownership in the Waterloo Cedar Falls IA supported 12 participants in achieving first-time homeownership. The program provided targeted education financial literacy and resources to help participants navigate the home-buying process and secure financing promoting wealth-building and financial stability.

    Expenses $78,766 · Grants $24,000 · Revenue $70,888

  • PITCH COMPETITION - Vitality Pitch Competition - In 2024 The Vitality Pitch Competition showcased highlighted and supported small businesses in the Cedar Valley. Entrepreneurs who complete the Vitality Business Accelerator present their business concepts to a panel of judges for an opportunity to win seed funding and gain exposure. The competition strengthens our local entrepreneurial ecosystem by providing training visibility and direct financial support to emerging founders.

    Expenses $100,334 · Grants $39,570 · Revenue $1,000

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.

  • Sharina Sallis

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kingsley Botchway

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kalola Roby

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tavis Hall

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Travis Ferguson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lynn Lagrone

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keyaira Miller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allen Speller

    BOARD MEMBER

    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
    $454,908
    Expenses
    $461,584
    Contributions
    $367,506
    Grants paid
    $74,270
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $315,937
    Expenses
    $366,768
    Contributions
    $311,451
    Grants paid
    $49,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $907,172
    Expenses
    $487,176
    Contributions
    $907,172
    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
    $430,929
    Expenses
    $122,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $385,900

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $42,550
    Expenses
    $442
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,799

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

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 11 November 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.