Detour Habitats Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923983883
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7747228502
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,031
- Expenses
- $104,034
- Assets
- $4,997
- 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
- Andrew Mitchell (President)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Mitchell (President)
- Prasanna Lachagari (Treasurer)
- Rizvi Hassan (Director)
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
Detour Habitats is a community-driven initiative that reimagines everyday spaces as hubs of culture, creativity, and resilience. Rooted in the belief that design is not only about structures but also about relationships, Detour Habitats seeks to nurture life through design in communities with limited access to design collaboration and to empower designers while advocating for buildings and environments that improve lives and champion cultural identity. By co-creating with local communities, artisans, and youth, the initiative nurtures intergenerational dialogue, strengthens cultural identity, and empowers livelihoods. Detour Habitats bridges heritage with innovation, ensuring that resilience is both celebrated and sustained. Detour Habitats is all about building dialogue, dignity, and belonging through design.
What it reported doing in 2024
Design Collaboration Program provides technical assistance in the built environment. Three major projects were completed or ongoing during the fiscal year including the Cheetah Conservation Project, Shonapahar Development Hub and the Social Architecture Workshop Teknaf. These projects, within the international development context, provide essential spaces improving the quality of life for stakeholders. We begin by listening to those often left unheard- women, youth, artisans, and voices whose stories shape the living environment we seek to nurture. Our leaders and volunteers come from within these communities, carrying traditions, languages, and memories that guide the work. Each space we co-create-whether a tea stall turned cultural hub or a schoolyard alive with storytelling-is designed to reflect dignity and belonging. By honoring identity and everyday rhythms, we ensure environments where everyone thrives. What drives us is the chance to design not just buildings but relationships-between people, culture, and nature, rooted in the collective strength we see in communities- their ability to endure, adapt, and create beauty in the simplest forms. To build with and for communities is to ensure that their resilience becomes visible, celebrated, and sustained.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.