Duesette and Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331858271
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,144
- Expenses
- $48,144
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Briana Duesette (President)
- Sheila Tilles (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Brittany Duesette Jonea (Treasurer and Director)
- Briana Duesette (President)
- Sheila Tilles (Vice President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Duesette and Company was organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to improve the quality of life for underserved individuals and families through community development youth enrichment urban agriculture environmental stewardship literacy and health and wellness initiatives. The organization develops and operates programs that provide educational opportunities food access leadership development neighborhood beautification and community engagement. Through its subsidiary initiatives including Findlay in Bloom Farm and the Gratiot Findlay Neighborhood Association the organization empowers residents by creating safe sustainable spaces expanding access to fresh food fostering environmental responsibility and strengthening neighborhoods through volunteerism partnerships and educational programming for youth and adults.
What it reported doing in 2025
Findlay in Bloom Farm & Community Garden The Findlay in Bloom Farm & Community Garden provided free hands-on agricultural and environmental education for children families and community members in Detroit. Participants learned sustainable gardening practices seed starting composting pollinator conservation food production and nutrition while helping cultivate fruits vegetables herbs and flowers. The program also included volunteer workdays neighborhood beautification and environmental stewardship activities. Produce harvested from the farm was shared with participating families and community members to improve access to fresh food. During 2025 the organization expanded growing space increased volunteer participation hosted educational workshops and strengthened partnerships supporting urban agriculture and food security.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.