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Black Bold and Brilliant

Black Bold and Brilliant (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$14k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$13k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Black Bold and Brilliant does

Mission

Community and youth services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Black Bold and Brilliant youth connection is a program that have the youth engage with the community services in the Twin Cities area

    $2,230 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,230.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($6k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 383 ($23k) Expenses 371 ($17k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 301 ($18k) Expenses 269 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2023 Revenue 263 ($16k) Expenses 280 ($13k) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 233 ($14k) Expenses 228 ($10k) Net assets 102 ($13k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (233)Expenses (228)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $12k to $0 (−100%).

$0
$0
$12k
$0
$13k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Black Bold and Brilliant’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’20
$6k
’21
$6k
’22
$3k
’23
$4k
’24
12
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Wisdom Mawusi

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

20222023
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

Black Bold and Brilliant runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Black Bold and Brilliant

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In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Black Bold and Brilliant?
Black Bold and Brilliant (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Black Bold and Brilliant have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Black Bold and Brilliant.
Who is the largest funder of Black Bold and Brilliant?
TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Black Bold and Brilliant find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing