Crime Stoppers of Flint & Genesee County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811607918
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Flint, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8103480796
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,407
- Expenses
- $197,906
- Assets
- $157,225
- Liabilities
- $44,644
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE LOPEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- KIMBERLY GRAY (BOARD MEMBER)
- ALVIN BRADFORD (BOARD MEMBER)
- DAVID CUSTER (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of crime stoppers is to partner with law enforcement, the media, and the community to help prevent and solve. Crime stoppers is an avenue for citizens to get information to law enforcement anonymously. Crime stoppers works diligently to educate, engage, and empower citizens in the efforts of reducing and fighting crime. Crime stoppers highlights unsolved cases on television, radio, and social media in the hopes someone will come forward with an anonymous tip to help solve these cases. If that information helps lead to an arrest, tipsters are eligible for a cash reward.
What it reported doing in 2024
Crime stoppers of flint & genesee county partners with law enforcement, the media, and the community to help solve and prevent crime. In 2024, 16 arrests were made with the help of anonymous tips, awarding $7,150 to tipsters. Crimes related to those arrests include homicide, conspiracy to commit murder, felony firearm, hit-and-run felon in possession of a firearm, dangerous drugs, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, theft, and carrying a concealed weapon.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $173K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.