New Direction Outreach Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383543502
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Phone
2693414500
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,693
Expenses
$20,318
Assets
$34,354
Liabilities
$328

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bishop Tommie D Lockett (President)

People named in this filing

  • Bishop Tommie D Lockett (President)
  • Melinda Lockett (Treasurer)
  • Donna Lockett-Purnell (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

New Direction Outreach Center serves free meals to homeless and low-income community residents; provides free food and household products through the Food Pantry; Provide free household items through Bonus Bucks; Provide free Computer and Internet Access; Other free services to low-income community residents.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bonus Bucks Pantry Site - Partner with Head Start to host a Bonus Bucks Pantry Site where Head Start parents earn "bonus bucks" (points) for participating in their child's classroom and educational activities. The "bonus bucks" earned are redeemed for household items at our site (prior to Covid-19 Pandemic).

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -30.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.