Jefferson East Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383231066
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3133319139
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,863,665
- Expenses
- $3,053,346
- Assets
- $2,435,742
- Liabilities
- $6,335,529
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACQUELINE YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN CARNAGHI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA R ELLING (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSHUA R ELLING (CEO): $182,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Growing detroit's east jefferson corridor and its neighborhoods through facilitative leadership, collaborative partnerships, and innovative and impactful programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
Resilient neighborhoods: resilient & safe neighborhoods support thriving businesses and residents. This is a fundamental component of jei's corridor and neighborhood improvement strategy. Jei monitors crime hotspots and develops community drive response to crime within the five neighborhoods that jei serves. Since 2013, jei has driven a 31% reduction in crime rates, implemented 137,689 public safety interventions including 4,900 domestic violence prevention activities and assisted more than 1,066 domestic violence victims in obtaining personal protection orders against their abusers. With the increase in climate induced disasters, jei now provides extensive disaster preparation and recovery training to neighborhood residents and business owners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $47.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.6; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $889K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.