Culture Lab Detroit

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821078094
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Birmingham, MI, USA
Phone
2482190847
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,126
Expenses
$19,782
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANE SCHULAK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JANE SCHULAK (PRESIDENT)
  • GRETCHEN DAVIDSON (TREASURER)
  • MATTHEW CLAYSON (SECRETARY)

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

Culture lab detroit is a non-profit organization that engages world-class artists, designers, and architects in a series of thoughtful discussions that stimulate new relationships, artistic opportunities and deeper connections between the detroit community and the international community. Additionally, the program hosts a series of workshops, site visits, classes, tours, panel discussions and salon dinners in hopes of inspiring permanent and transformative projects of design, art, architecture, and landscape architecture, furthering the cultural transformation of detroit.

What it reported doing in 2024

To provide a platform for artists, designers, and architects to come together and engage in thoughtful discussions and relationships to form artistic opportunities and deeper connections between the detroit community and the international community.for fy 2021 and in response to the covid-19 pandemic, culture lab detroit suspended formal programming and moved to a virtual format. Culture lab detroit leadership used the time to survey advisors and collaborators as to needs, challenges and opportunities. Culture lab detroit leadership inventoried resources and programs designed to support artists' financial and emotional wellbeing during the pandemic, and shared those resources with advisors and collaborators.culture lab detroit leadership also worked with various educational and philanthropic initiatives in detroit's cultural community to help them define and develop collaborative programming in anticipation of a safe and gradual re-opening.in addition, culture lab detroit suspended formal fundraising activities with its philanthropic partners and relied on individual contributions to support the virtual programming it delivered.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 6.4%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -57.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -33.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.