Chadwick Boseman’s brothers, Kevin and Derrick Boseman, are keeping the actor’s legacy alive.
They launched Boseman Family LLC in fall 2025, according to AfroTech. It is a company created to oversee projects inspired by Chadwick’s work while expanding opportunities in storytelling, the arts and community impact.
“What inspired it was, of course, Chad had his own company, and there have been some offers that have come in to do work that is inspired by him, and we sort of felt the best way to tackle business, to partner with other businesses, was to start a business,” Kevin told AfroTech.
Building on Boseman
Derrick told AfroTech that after turning down several partnership opportunities, he eventually found the right team.
“I always ask God to put people in my path that will move me, or us, in the direction that he would have us to go in,” Derrick said. The women he eventually met became the family’s management team.
According to AfroTech, the Boseman brothers hope to build generational wealth through creativity, intellectual property and artistic collaboration rather than focusing solely on financial inheritance.
Kevin noted that there are “a lot of family dynasties in entertainment,” citing the Jacksons and the Wayans as examples.
“We actually have an incredibly talented family,” he said. “We hope… to create an ecosystem where we’re all feeding off of each other’s gifts and talents and supporting one another and creating together.”
Following Chadwick’s posthumous induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Derrick and Kevin spoke with Black Enterprise, published in December 2025.
“He left movies. That’s for the public,” Derrick told Black Enterprise. “His memory would be his character, the way he handled people with kindness. He always honored our parents. He was a mama’s boy.”
Kevin credited their parents and upbringing for shaping Chadwick’s values. According to Black Enterprise, the brothers were raised by a factory worker father and a nurse mother.
“It all really began at home. It began with respect for our elders,” Kevin said. “We come from really humble beginnings—not poverty, but definitely not wealth.” He added, “We were taught to carry ourselves knowing that we could become anything we wanted to be because it was in us.”
Chadwick, who died in August 2020 after a battle with colon cancer, has a performing arts building named in his honor at Howard University.
Some finance blogs estimate his net worth at the time of his death to have been between $4 million and $12 million.
Court records filed by Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, show the estate was initially valued at approximately $3.88 million. Boseman did not leave a will. Ledward, whom he married just months before his death, was appointed to oversee the estate.
The filings revealed the estate received about $187,000 in residuals in March 2021, followed by additional payments later that year and another check in 2022, Radar reported. The documents also show Ledward sought reimbursement for funeral-related expenses, including the memorial service and mausoleum crypts for Boseman and his parents. The court approved roughly $47,000 in reimbursements. According to the filing, the estate has no real property, and all federal and California taxes have been paid. However, the estate is contesting a $51,000 tax bill tied to Chadwick Boseman, Inc.
After expenses, the estate at the time held roughly $2.3 million. Ledward has asked the court to distribute half of the remaining assets to her and the other half to Boseman’s parents.
While his brothers are trying to get the LLC up and running, the Chadwick Boseman Foundation For The Arts is not faring well. According to Propublica, the nonprofit is in need of a cash influx. In 2024, it had net assets of just $26,124 and took in a mere $8,900 that year while expenses exceeded $13,000.