The Chaldean Community Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203963417
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Sterling Heights, MI, USA
Phone
5867227253
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,461,969
Expenses
$9,517,499
Assets
$27,401,150
Liabilities
$5,404,717

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARTIN MANNA (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARTIN MANNA (PRESIDENT): $567,000 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 chaldean community foundation is dedicated to improving the stability, health, and wellness of those we serve through advocacy, acculturation, community development, and cultural preservation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Behavioral health and human services: the chaldean community foundation has become the key service and planning organization for the chaldean community in the metropolitan detroit area. According to the most recent population study, the chaldean community is comprised of approximately 150,000 people in more than 30,000 households. The foundation and its partners provide services that benefit 150,000 people annually in the metropolitan detroit area and throughout the state of Michigan. Ccf behavioral health services were developed to provide much-needed mental health services, psychoeducation, wellness programming and support to new americans and others in Michigan. A core initiative is breaking barriers, which provides assistance and advocacy to individuals with special needs and respite to their unpaid caregivers. Services are focused to support community integration and independence. Beam project helps equip those with visual impairments by teaching technology skills with braille, esl, acculturation and mobility. Heal project is specific to the hearing impaired to support learning esl, american sign language and life skills. Wise programming is an evidence based wellness program empowering older adults to make positive and healthy choices.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 47
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 18.7%; rating input score 19; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.6%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $567K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 2 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 19/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.