Passenger Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811037667
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Hamtramck, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3136713536
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $493,758
- Expenses
- $312,835
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Tait (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Bryan Wolf (Program Director): $67,406 total reported compensation
- Christopher Tait (Executive Director): $61,701 total reported compensation
- Holly Spiers (Bookkeeper): $17,253 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Passenger Recovery began as a support system for music industry workers touring in recovery. As our mission has evolved, we've expanded to include all who wish to explore recovery, by creating events that bring our local community together through music and recovery. Just as the music industry encompasses diverse individuals with varied challenges, so does the journey of recovery. Music and the Arts, like recovery, serve as a unifying force, connecting people from all walks of life and helping them find common ground. Our work is dedicated to leveraging this connection to support and inspire those on the path to recovery
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 33
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th 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: 25%; rating input score 25; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 92.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.