Southeast Michigan Grants Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873056326
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3135185600
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,491,679
- Expenses
- $2,471,757
- Assets
- $405,539
- Liabilities
- $376,818
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAUREEN DONOHUE KRAUSS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MAUREEN DONOHUE KRAUSS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $550,102 total reported compensation
- JUSTIN ROBINSON (EVP, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT): $306,184 total reported compensation
- ANGELA LADETTO (SVP, MARKETING & BUS. INTELLIGENCE): $244,811 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help the southeast Michigan's existing mobility ecosystem become better connected, smarter, more inclusive, and more adaptive to change.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mobility advancement: the objective of this program is to accelerate economic growth by building on the region's unrivaled mobility assets. It will create a smart, secure, sustainable, and inclusive advanced mobility industry starting with the transition to next-generation electric, autonomous, and fully connected vehicles. Semgc, as the host organization of the global epicenter of mobility (gem), is responsible for convening, researching, storytelling and reporting on the activities of gem. Semgc initiates and administers the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for gem.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 69% for direct work, and 31% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -41.5% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $550K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $100K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.