Flint & Genesee Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203904349
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Flint, MI, USA
- Phone
- 8106001426
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,624,828
- Expenses
- $3,885,879
- Assets
- $4,675,251
- Liabilities
- $486,618
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Timothy Herman (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Timothy Herman (CEO): $386,340 total reported compensation
- Kristina Johnston (COO): $258,279 total reported compensation
- Stephanie Fenton (COO Uptown): $244,849 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
With a mission to maximize economic and community growth through collaborative partnerships and promotion of the region, the Organization aims to strengthen the local economy and create a place where people thrive, and businesses invest and grow. The Organization works to accomplish this through targeted programs and services and strong partnerships that add capacity to businesses, attract and retain investment, and enhance tourism.
What it reported doing in 2025
Chamber The Organization offers support, resources, events, and networking opportunities that bring businesses together, increase their visibility in the community, and equip them with the tools and knowledge they need to better understand their environment and build capacity. The Organization provides a collective voice for businesses that drive the local economy, while advocating for their needs at the local, state, and federal levels.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.9%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $386K · 23 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.