Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462408286
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3133124142
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,301,350
- Expenses
- $1,371,456
- Assets
- $1,613,164
- Liabilities
- $46,757
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KIKI LOUYA (EXECUTIVE DI): $151,052 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Detroit food academy partners with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round program. As students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful. Detroit food academy is a non- profit youth leadership program that works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to inspire young detroiters through entrepreneurial experiences rooted in food--experiences, which open doors, create connections, and cultivate confidence. From cooking delicious healthy meals for friends and family to facilitating complex conversations with community, to developing artisanal food projects from scratch to market, students learn by transforming their ideas into reality. By developing food-based solutions in and for their communities, students will achieve the goal of learning to identify problems, implement solutions, and grow as holistic leaders who are healthy, connected, and powerful to aff
What it reported doing in 2024
Detroit food academy operates an experiential leadership program dedicated to tranforming the lives of young detroiters through food and social entrepreneurship. The detroit food academy offered 4 programs during the 2024 year: the afterschool leadership program, advanced leadership program, summer leadership program, and the small batch workforce development program. These programs reached over 300 students from 45 high schools and community sites across detroit. Students who joined the detroit food academy's youth-led, year-long afterschool programs met regularly to cook together and grow their social emotional skills and transferrable work skills. Projects allowed students to explore food systems, culinary arts, entrepreneurship, and leadership development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.