Da Blodgett - St John's
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381358163
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164512021
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,584,121
- Expenses
- $15,694,255
- Assets
- $29,746,871
- Liabilities
- $2,292,520
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY MULIETT (PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE)
- JOEL BELL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- KAREN POWELL (VICE PRESIDENT OF EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE)
Highest reported compensation
- JOEL BELL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $177,521 total reported compensation
- COLETTE BEIGHLEY (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER): $136,982 total reported compensation
- TAMERA SMITH (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $128,435 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The agency is comprised of core service areas to help children and empower families by providing safety, advocacy, and support.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family support services - support for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism. Support coordinators work with the families and youth to assist them in achieving goals in the areas of daily living activities, improving the child's ability to communicate and interact with their environment, and promoting inclusion and participation in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th 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: -15.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 31 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $117K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.