Detroit Heals Detroit Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831099822
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
3137210717
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Centers, Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$210,772
Expenses
$246,072
Assets
$567,522
Liabilities
$25,028

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Camille Hollenquest (Executive Director)
  • Aalilian Jones (Youth Co-Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Camille Hollenquest (Executive Director): $40,000 total reported compensation
  • Aalilian Jones (Youth Co-Executive Director): $40,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

DHD fosters healing justice for Detroit youth, helping them transform pain into power. We address trauma through healing-centered engagement, encouraging yourth to share their stories while working to dismantle oppressive systems that impact marginalized young people in Detroit.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Detroit Heals Detroit advanced its youth-led healing justice model through school-based partnerships, training and consulting, and practitioner certification. Through our 10-week Youth-Led Healing Justice Curriculum, we partnered with schools and organizations to deliver social-emotional learning rooted in joy, healing, social justice, and liberation. Our practitioner certification program equipped educators and youth-serving professionals to integrate healing justice practices into schools, after-school programs, and community settings. We also provided customized training and consulting to foundations, educational institutions, community organizations, and government agencies, and offered Youth/Adult Powersharing workshops to address adultism and elevate young peoples voices. Across all programs, we centered youth leadership, trauma-informed care, and healing-centered engagement to support Detroit youth in transforming

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -16.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.31; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $128K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.