Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency
Legal name: Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381976979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- (313) 388-9799
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,988,362
- Expenses
- $111,929,731
- Assets
- $51,311,715
- Liabilities
- $38,321,595
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Louis Piszker (CEO)
- Carla Chinavare (Executive Director, Whole Family Integration)
- Jasmine Marie Carson (Executive Director, Empowerment and Integration)
- Maria Frazzitta-Weaver (Executive Director, Finance)
Highest reported compensation
- Louis Piszker (CEO): $382,719 total reported compensation
- Mia Harnos (Former COO): $260,348 total reported compensation
- Thomas Sperti (Former CFO): $245,342 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In our pursuit to eliminate poverty, Wayne Metro empowers people and communities to be strong, healthy, and thriving.
What it reported doing in 2024
Whole Family: Creation of integrated service delivery systems that supports children's needs and family goals. The programs and services impacting Whole Family Success are: early childhood education, youth out-of-school-time programs, and services for youth experiencing homelessness, adult education services supporting digital literacy and GED preparation, and food and nutrition education initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some related-organization disclosures are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,111.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 11 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 93.4% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $383K · 33 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.1M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 33 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 155 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 151 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.