The Capitol Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272406103
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- East Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5178844546
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,898
- Expenses
- $98,256
- Assets
- $4,889
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GABRIELA STROM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AUDREY TIPPER (DIRECTOR)
- JEFF SMITH (DIRECTOR)
- PAUL JAQUES (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create community-building events and resources in the lansing area, including attracting talent to the lansing community through placemaking, unique programs, and experiential events.
What it reported doing in 2024
The main programmatic initiative supported by the capital collective was the lansing 5:01 program, which attracts and retains emerging professionals to the lansing community through unique programs, experiential events, and place-based marketing initiatives. Lansing 5:01 welcomed thousands of emerging professionals to the community during the fy 24-25, including its annual dam jam music festival that took place in the fall at the brenke fish ladder, and welcomed, and welcomed thousands of people over multiple nights. Lansing 5:01 continues to position its website, lansing501.com, as the premium platform for employers, recruiters, and emerging talent that is considering opportunities for living and working in the lansing region. Lansing 5:01 became it's own 501(c)3 entity with its own ceo and board of directors in the summer of 2025 (june/july) and all lansing 5:01 operations that had previously been supported from a fiduciary perspective by the capitol collective transferred to the new entity at that time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.7% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.