Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381508581
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Southfield, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2483517979
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,040,333
- Expenses
- $1,276,900
- Assets
- $4,536,312
- Liabilities
- $450,754
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA SCHOTTHOEFER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREA SCHOTTHOEFER (PRESIDENT): $133,123 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW MONTPAS (ACCOUNTANT): $51,913 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The epilepsy foundation of Michigan leads the fight to improve the lives of people affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocacy and public policy - ongoing efforts to protect the rights of people with epilepsy & promote public policies that benefit them such as: access to medication and specialty healthcare services, patient safety and mental health parity. Public policy agenda is promoted through grassroots efforts & regular communication with policy makers.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 58%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.55; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.