Operation Get Down
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382036469
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3139219422
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug and Substance Abuse, Dependency Prevention and Treatment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,215,085
- Expenses
- $1,324,481
- Assets
- $553,871
- Liabilities
- $285,104
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARRELL GARTH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SANDRA BPMER-PARKER (BOARD MEMBER)
- MARVIS COFIELD (BOARD MEMBER)
- PASTOR KEENAN KNOX (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Emergency outreach and homeless services
What it reported doing in 2021
Emergency services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 62.2%; rating input score 62
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 62.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $824K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2021
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.