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PSYCHES OF COLOR

EIN 85-1924796 LOS ANGELES, CA

Revenue 2024
$234,566
Expenses 2024
$163,967

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1200
Street
1150 S OLIVE ST FL 10 # 126

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

Charitable, Educational, Scientific Purposes: Tax-Exempt Purposes. (a) To promote, encourage, and advance education; (b) To provide grants, scholarships, engagement or support to, or for the benefit of, distressed, underprivileged, underrepresented and underserved youth and communities; (c) To eliminate prejudice and discrimination and combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency; and (d) To conduct any and all lawful activities which may be necessary, desirable or useful in accomplishing the foregoing purposes, either alone or together with other organizations and individuals having similar purposes, subject to the restrictions and limitations in the Psyches of Color, Inc. Articles of Incorporation and the provisions of the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law of the State of California (NPBCL).

Activities or mission (Part I)

Provides mental health support to at promise Black and Latinx adolescents and young adults to decrease the stigma of mental health and promote radical healing. Our two-prong approach includes 1) destigmatizing mental health and providing opportunities that adaptively supports the way at-promise Black and Latinx youth (13-25) navigate their mental health and 2) exposing, nurturing, and empowering the next Black and Latinx mental health professionals through various mental health pathways (e.g., mental health care trainings, workshops, certifications, leadership skills, and research).

  • Exert Your Voice - This program provides a space for Black and Latinx adolescents and young adults to come express themselves through various forms of art such as music creation, journaling, drawing, storytelling, poetry, and many other forms of art. This program began Jan 2021 and has continued to evolve throughout the year. Youth leaders lead this youth driven program that also offers a mental health provider out of the abundance of caution during sessions for the youth in the program.

    Expenses $68,862

  • Mentoring POC Healing Arts - This program provides mentoring to Black and Latinx adolescents and young adults (13-25) by providing them with guidance on personal, professional, and mental health goals and is an integration of mentoring, mental health, and art education.

    Expenses $51,061 · Grants $136,536

  • The Black Equity Collective Grants mission is to join funders and communities in strengthening the long-term sustainability of Black-led and Black empowering programs in Southern California. Specifically, we received a planning grant to support our new workforce development program as well as funding support for capacity building efforts for the nonprofit organization services. Lastly, it supported our Penpal POC program, Family Support program, and Nurturing POC Program for materials needed for workshop facilitation. The Penpal POC program provides mental health support to youth who have been impacted by systems (e.g., foster, carceral, schools). The Family Support program provides mental health support to families of our Black and Latinx youth. the Nurturing POC program provides mental health support to parenting teens and young adults.

    Expenses $41,894 · Grants $60,000

  • Nurturing POC - We provide mental health support to parenting teens and young adults

    Expenses $2,150 · Grants $2,400

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.

  • Jessica Flores

    Community Outreach & Volunteer Services Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $14,467
    From this org
    $14,467
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Dr Tierra T Ellis

    Founder & President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Dr Sahran Hamit

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Dr Myisha Driver Woods

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $234,566
    Expenses
    $163,967
    Contributions
    $234,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $115,579
    Expenses
    $18,231
    Contributions
    $115,579
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,186
    Expenses
    $3,961
    Contributions
    $11,186
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $8,547
    Expenses
    $498
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,049

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