THE COOKIE PROJECT Dba MI Cookie Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474147363
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Wyandotte, MI, USA
Phone
7347702223
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Developmentally Disabled Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$80,474
Expenses
$154,633
Assets
$289,377
Liabilities
$3,571

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Dwyer (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Marjorie Gibson (Chief Operating Officer)
  • Kelly Dwyer (Vice President)
  • Shelly Pluchino (Secretary)

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

Teaching work skills to individuals with developmental disabilities

What it reported doing in 2024

MI Cookie Project Bakery-The bakery opened July 2016. Twenty individuals with developmental disabilities are trained work skills through the various operations in a commercial bakery. Individuals gain a sense of purpose and involvement in the community

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 63% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 13

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: -92.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 59%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 13.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.