Detroit Community Solutions Incorporated

Analysis

Detroit Community Solutions Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Grosse Pointe, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Detroit Community Solutions Incorporated reported income of $85k and spending of $93k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $530k to $85k (-84%), an average of -46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 460%. Over the whole period it spent 48% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Detroit Community Solutions Incorporated sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grow Arizona ($85k), His Helping Hands Inc ($85k) and Faith Foundation Resources ($85k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.8% and program service revenue 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $72k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $72k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.