Black Environmental Leaders Association

Analysis

Black Environmental Leaders Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Solon, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Black Environmental Leaders Association reported income of $604k and spending of $676k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $375k to $604k (+61%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Black Environmental Leaders Association sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pact Collective ($604k), Charge Across Town Inc ($605k) and Buckeye Environmental Network ($604k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $350k against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $303k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.