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BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION INC

EIN 82-4862489 OAKLAND, CA

Revenue 2023
$6,820,373
Expenses 2023
$9,115,702

Program services were 57.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R20
Classification
1200
Street
248 3RD 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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CICLEY GAY

    BOARD CHAIR & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • SHALOMYAH BOWERS

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • D'ZHANE PARKER

    BOARD MEMBER & SENIOR DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $108,175
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,175
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAUL CULLORS

    HEAD OF SECURITY

    Total calculated
    $226,785
    From this org
    $200,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,785
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $200,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,785
    Filer's total
    $226,785

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,820,373
    Expenses
    $9,115,702
    Contributions
    $3,336,252
    Grants paid
    $2,564,962
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,684,554
    Expenses
    $10,759,094
    Contributions
    $4,618,133
    Grants paid
    $642,992

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 2023 return

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

    527 · SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY LEADERS, ACTIVISTS, & WORKING-CLASS CANDIDATES · DC · controlled entity

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 10 September 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.