Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203122770
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
3138701500
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,159,164
Expenses
$1,205,076
Assets
$806,720
Liabilities
$84,215

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE SPREITZER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • YUSEF BUNCHY SHAKUR PHD (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEVE SPREITZER (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,394 total reported compensation
  • YUSEF BUNCHY SHAKUR PHD (CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $101,546 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

By cultivating just and beloved communities, neighborhoods, and organizations, we work to eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities. The Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities has formed an equitable partnership with the Mama Akua Community House (MACH) in the Zone 8 neighborhood. This partnership has evolved from almost a decade of collaborative programming leading to the creation of a community-neighborhood annex of Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities at the Mama Akua Community House where we currently offer capacity support and implementation of many new programs. The Mama Akua Community House aims to serve as a multifunction grassroots institution. This grassroots institution focuses on movement building, youth leadership development, mutual aid, and community organizing, and engaging directly with individuals.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization's workplace diversity, equity and inclusion program has been renamed communities & organizations for social change. Since george floyd's murder, the organization has had a sharp increase in requests for their work. This program addresses the individual and systemic obstructions present within many organizations and institutions and is developing an anti-racist training component along with opportunities for the organizations served to address racial inequity in the communities where they work as part of their corporate social responsibility. The organization is engaging a range of clients from corporations to law firms and marketing firms. The organization is also working with a range of nonprofit organizations, schools and chambers of commerce. The organization has adapted their 15 plus offerings for the virtual platform and are surveying the marketplace to develop new and relevant offerings. The organization's competitive advantage comes from lessons learned and relationships developed over the past 80 years. The organization began its work with a deeper understanding of the challenges organizations and their employees are facing, while creating both safe and brave places to address these challenges over time.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.