The Baldwin Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203890194
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pontiac, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2483326101
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $996,015
- Expenses
- $960,920
- Assets
- $868,429
- Liabilities
- $114,077
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV JACK MANNSCHRECK (PRESIDENT)
- JAMES BOLOGNA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH A LONGLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH A LONGLEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $55,385 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 baldwin center's mission is to feed, clothe, educate and empower the men, women and children of the pontiac community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth services: -after school program - four evenings per week, k8 kids came for a healthy meal, enrichment and recreation. Ou students, interns, and other volunteers provided tutoring, literacy intervention, and assistance with activities. Engineering club, under the leadership of general motors global propulsion systems volunteers, met twice per week focused on the theme 'rocket science'.-summer enrichment day camp - baldwin enrolled local elementary children in a six-week summer program staffed by many people of all ages from churches, colleges, and other organizations, as well as baldwin employees.activities included academic review, arts & crafts, health & wellness, cooking, and communication skills building. Also included were weekly fun days or field trips, including trips to camp fire's camp wathana in holly and splash 'n' blast waterpark at kensington metropark, as well as a visit from accent pontiac bucket band. The kids spent their days developing friendships, making memories, and improving 11% on average their knowledge of health & wellness and communications as measured in pre and postassessments.-stem 2035 initiative - the baldwin center is one of 17 organizations chosen out of 100 applicants to participate in the ralph c. Wilson, jr. Foundation stem 2035 cohort. The grant, which includes technical assistance, will be used over three years to fund startstrategies for thriving through achievement, resource-building, and teamwork for middle and high school participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- 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: 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $762K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.