Community Foundation of Greater Flint
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382190667
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Flint, MI, US
- Phone
- 810-767-8270
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,631,227
- Expenses
- $36,919,131
- Assets
- $313,921,843
- Liabilities
- $887,068
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK MILLER (INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO/VICE CHAIR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK MILLER (INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO/VICE CHAIR): $276,000 total reported compensation
- JA'NEL JAMERSON (VP OF POLICY & P20 PARTNERSHIPS): $252,421 total reported compensation
- SUE PETERS (VP OF COMMUNITY IMPACT): $200,116 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To mobilize people, ideas, and capital to build a vibrant and equitable Flint and Genesee County where everyone thrives.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization receives gifts from individuals, foundations, and organizations and places them into individual funds that match the giving priorities of the donors. The majority of the gifts are endowment gifts which are preserved into perpetuity, with a portion of the cumulative net appreciation returned to the community through grants to area not-for-profit organizations. The organization's current priorities include: strengthening donor services in order to more effectively build the community's endowment; making grants consistent with donor intent, and in the case of unrestricted grantmaking, supporting community revitalization efforts and building the capacity of local not-for-profit organizations; and exercising community leadership by assisting efforts related to economic diversification, civic engagement, and developing a stronger sense of regionalism. In everything the organization accomplishes and supports, it seeks to create a more cohesive and vital sense of community throughout genesee county. In 2024, the organization provided grants to 345 different organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 98.6%; rating input score 99; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 47th 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: 31.2%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.5; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $276K · 27 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $701K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 179 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 173 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.