Maxcen Housing Society Inc Michigan Branch

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863692926
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
8889594159
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Farmland Preservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,674
Expenses
$79,757
Assets
$82,674
Liabilities
$79,757

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jean Maxcene Decarde (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jean Maxcene Decarde (CEO): $4,896 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote decent, safe, and affordable housing for persons of low and moderate-income in the United States of America and Michigan territories; to advance and promote meaningful communications and relationships with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Congress as a unified group of professional housing directors with regard to public housing policy;

What it reported doing in 2025

To advance and promote communications with federal, state, and local agencies and officials, resident groups, housing development groups, housing advocacy groups, businesses, and other agencies and organizations to carry out policies and goals for affordable and public housing purposes; 4. To formulate an educational and communication network to improve the expertise in the housing field through educational meetings, workshops, periodic newsletters, electronic media, and preparation of texts.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 10
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.5%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.