Pontiac Community Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825321502
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Pontiac, MI, USA
Phone
2482466606
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,073,362
Expenses
$1,363,124
Assets
$633,117
Liabilities
$155,583

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • DUSTIN MCCLELLAN (DIRECTOR): $121,168 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Leveraging leadership, philanthropy, and collaboration to build a brighter future for pontiac.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024, m1 mobility leveraged an additional 156,976 (over 500,000 to date) to partner with local organizations to deliver k-12 programming, senior transportation, and non-emergency medical transportation providing over 8,500 rides to pontiac residents, including over 20,900 miles driven. This includes an expansion of our fleet to from three to four commercial vehicles. The center for pontiac entrepreneurship (cfpe) leveraged an additional 211,552 in 2024 to make significant strides in continuing the work of delivering hundreds of hours of training and 1:1 counseling to pontiac small business owners. The oakland county regional housing partnership launched a webpage to promote attainable housing, merged with the oakland county blueprint to end homelessness, and partnered with the Michigan association of planners for zoning reform workshops, while also developing an online hub for homelessness prevention resources. Prevention pontiac conducted over 250 hours of community engagement in 2024. This includes 2,451 attendees to trainings and presentations on youth substance abuse. Prevention pontiac hosted events throughout the year including narcan trainings (147 narcan kits distributed), drug take-back days, and community-specific campaigns that further prevention efforts on topics including buzzed driving, marijuana misuse, mental health, and alcohol misuse. The fiscal sponsorship program both highlighted the grassroots efforts of organizations like friends of pontiac parks and karman, and also facilitated key partnerships with the city of pontiac and the pontiac school district to help realize pcfs vision to see pontiac as the premier place to live, work, and play.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 51% for direct work, and 49% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 71.8%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 75.2%; rating input score 75; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -27%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 71.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $979K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 27 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.