Black Employees Assn

Analysis

Black Employees Assn is a registered charity in United States, based in Inglewood, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 Employees Assn reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $3.4m to $1.9m (-43%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Black Employees Assn sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Comn Ctr of Greater Cleveland ($1.9m), Youth Unlimited Inc ($1.9m) and Lawyers Campaign for Equal Justice ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $40k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $40k.

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.