Community Family Life Centers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320115383
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Phone
7349617058
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$594,110
Expenses
$494,134
Assets
$381,896
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Willie Powell (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Willie Powell (Executive Director)
  • Theressa Beasley (Board Chair)
  • Andrew Robinson (Trustee)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Community Family Life Centers CFLC mission is to serve individuals youth and their families with programming focused on social educational physical and economic well-being. CFLC is a neighborhoodbased non-profit organization that serves as a hub for the Sugarbrook Neighborhood and the greater Ypsilanti area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Addressing Educational Disparities. Community Family Life Centers offer a comprehensive set of services and programs aimed at addressing educational disparities among African Americans and other BIPOC Black Indigenous and People of Color communities. Heres a step-by-step description of what participants experienced along with how each service program addressed poverty racism and trauma: 1 Educational Support Services : *Academic Tutoring and Mentoring: Qualified tutors and mentors provided personalized support to students focusing on core subjects like mathematics science and reading. * Homework Assistance: After-school programs are established to provide a conducive environment for completing homework assignments with access to resources and assistance from staff. 2 Enrichment Programs: * STEM Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Initiatives: Hands-on STEM activities and workshops are organized .3 * Arts and Cultural Programs: Creative arts workshops including music dance and cooking are offered to promote self-expression. 5 *Physical activities are offered 6 *Mental Health and Trauma Support: 7* Counseling Services: Licensed counselors and therapists are available to provide individual and group counseling sessions to address trauma stress and mental health challenges faced by participants withTrauma-Informed Practice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 41% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $494K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.