Southwest Solutions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382672000
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3138418905
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,421,665
- Expenses
- $8,277,789
- Assets
- $18,460,458
- Liabilities
- $2,606,011
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SEAN DE FOUR (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SEAN DE FOUR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $312,000 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE R SHERMAN (COO & CFO): $258,024 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM HUTCHINS (DIRECTOR OF IT): $146,712 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of southwest solutions d/b/a miside community impact network (miside) is to enhance the quality of life, success and self-sufficiency of individuals and families in detroit.
What it reported doing in 2024
Southwest counseling solutions d/b/a miside health, southwest economic solutions d/b/a miside wealth, southwest housing corporation d/b/a miside housing, and development centers, inc. D/b/a miside early years are wholly owned subsidiaries of southwest solutions d/b/a miside community impact network. Board members are appointed by southwest solutions. The board of southwest solutions is the governing board of southwest solutions and its subsidiaries. The board is responsible for budget approval, bylaws revisions, formation of a new company, and capital acquisitions greater than $250,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $312K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 43 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.