Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
381387123
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
2485224419
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,181,041
Expenses
$13,465,697
Assets
$22,151,898
Liabilities
$1,776,093

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHAWN H WILSON (PRESIDENT AND CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHAWN H WILSON (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $648,868 total reported compensation
  • JAKE MILLNER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $292,412 total reported compensation
  • ALISE DIXON (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $232,366 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide a world-class experience, empowering youth to reach their full potential as change agents for their lives, club, and community while ensuring youth are career-ready, startup-ready, and homeowner-ready before they leave the clubs at 18 years old.

What it reported doing in 2025

The talent & innovation pillar prepares youth for life and workforce success through bgcsm's 3-e's framework: exposure, exploration, and experience. Youth are introduced to diverse career pathways through field trips, guest speakers, and workshops; engage in hands-on, project-based learning and skill development; and participate in paid work-based learning and entrepreneurial experiences through industry clubs. Programming emphasizes steam, small business development, and mentorship, equipping youth with technical skills, confidence, and clear pathways to post-secondary education and careers. This pillar fosters self-efficacy and economic mobility by transforming interests into tangible opportunities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.1%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.3%; rating input score 97; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.1% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $649K · 33 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.