Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382016858
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brighton, MI, US
- Phone
- 810. 227.5086
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $774,700
- Expenses
- $763,609
- Assets
- $572,258
- Liabilities
- $257,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATE LAWRENCE (PAST PRESIDENT)
- DANIEL OGINSKY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOE KNOPP (DIRECTOR)
- DAVID JOHNSON (LEGAL COUNCIL)
- DAN MULVIHILL (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote opportunities for a prosperous business community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The chamber hosted a variety of member-focused events throughout the year, including luncheons, networking mixers, and educational sessions. These programs supported professional development and fostered connections within the local business community.
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.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.7%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 4
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 1.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 3.7% of revenue deployed · 3.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.