Making Choices Michigan

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462064158
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Phone
6164305247
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,451
Expenses
$107,667
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BEN EMDIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BEN EMDIN (PRESIDENT)
  • REVEREND DAVID BLAUW (DIRECTOR)
  • DR IRIS BOETTCHER MD (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To create a culture that accepts every person's right to make choices about the health care they receive throughout life, including at the end of life, and feel assured that those choices will be respected. We are committed to encouraging and facilitating advance care planning in Michigan and surrounding communities. Advance care planning is a process of engaging individuals and their families or friends in a discussion on the individual's preferences for their health care.

What it reported doing in 2019

Making choices Michigan's (mcm) mission is to encourage and facilitate advance health care planning (acp) by the people of Michigan, with the goal of having individuals discuss the care they would chose if they are unable to speak for themselves. In 2019, mcm continued to expand its community outreach efforts through the interfaith acp program. In addition to mcm's usual outreach endeavors, the mcm-trained first step facilitators presented acp education to their congregants, followed by facilitated acp conversation with willing participants. By 2019 year-end, mcm volunteer facilitators and the interfaith facilitators had educated 1,734 individuals, received 84 conversation requests, facilitated 75 conversations, and completed 65+ advance directives (ad). In addition, mcm referred 3 conversations to local spanish-speaking or outside healthcare provider facilitators. Finally, mcm trained 52 new first-step and 8 advanced step facilitators in 2019. Of note, the majority are still working part or full time in their chosen profession and see mcm as an important community initiative worthy of their volunteer hours.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,174%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.