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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by SOUTHWEST DETROIT IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE CENTER.

Totals

Total revenue
$599,414
Total expenses
$627,819
Contributions and grants received
$584,990
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$14,423
Investment income
$1
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$182,055
Total liabilities, end of year
$50,000
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$132,055
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$478,071
Management and general expenses
$149,748
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$478,071

Program services were 76.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $125,963

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $459,027

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Earned Revenue

    total $14,423 · related or exempt $14,423

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1 · related or exempt $1

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $376,039 · program services $319,633 · management and general $56,406

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $100,613 · program services $85,521 · management and general $15,092

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $32,654 · program services $27,756 · management and general $4,898

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $6,171 · program services $6,171

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $37,632 · program services $37,632

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $1,358 · program services $1,358

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $12,762 · management and general $12,762

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $23,242 · management and general $23,242

  • 17 · Travel

    total $645 · management and general $645

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $1,863 · management and general $1,863

  • 24a · Other expenses: Property Taxes

    total $982 · management and general $982

  • 24b · Other expenses: Meals

    total $1,779 · management and general $1,779

  • 24c · Other expenses: Prior Period Expense

    total $1,196 · management and general $1,196

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $30,883 · management and general $30,883

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $194,107 · end of year $132,768

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $291 · end of year $8,268

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $24,254

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $16,765

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $16,765 · end of year $16,765

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,193

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $50,000 · end of year $50,000

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $159,970 · end of year $132,055

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Provide low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees seeking to make a home in the city of Detroit. Offer low-cost housing to immigrants and refugees who have diffuclty finding long-term residency in the city of Detroit.Assist businesses owned by Detroit residents.

  • In 2023 we provided 4,952 client appointments at our daily, free legal clinics. One hundred andforty-two (142) of our clients won asylum, sixty-seven (67) removal cases were closed, ninety-fourclients (94) were granted permanent residency, and nearly three hundred received EmploymentAuthorization Documents. Further, fIfty-three (53) clients were approved for TPS, sixteen (16)DACA recipients renewed their status and more than two hundred (200) filed family reunificationpetitions on behalf of relatives left behind in their home countries. No other Detroit-based,not-for-profit organization comes close to matching these numberseither in the number of clientsserved, or positive case outcomes. Besides our daily, free legal clinics, SWIRCs activities include twice-weekly Afghan Clinics thatserve the growing Afghan population in metro Detroit; a New Arrivals program that servesresidents of City of Detroit-sponsored shelters; Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) services onbehalf of 48 current clients; U-Visa/VAWA Visa services focused on victims of domestic violenceand crime; and Probate Court services that help Black and immigrant families retain their homesand help children and disabled persons receive suitable guardians. SWIRC funds its programs through a variety of sources as indicated in the attached budget.Federally-funded grants support two of our programs: the Afghan Arrivals Programadministered by the Office of Global Michigan (State of Michigan), and the New Arrivals Clinicwhose funds come from the City of Detroit and is administered by Freedom House. Our staff pushes forward our mission. Led by Kevin Piecuch, executive director and ClarisaPiecuch, our associate director, we have assembled a first-class team that supports our continuedgrowth. Genevieve Lonski, our staff attorney, and paralegals Jose Davila, Jose Cabrera, andDavid Lopez are highly trained and staff our legal clinics. Translator Sayed Azami is fluent in Pashto, Dari, and Urdu, and provides in-clinic translation and support for our Afghan Clinic.Finally, our bilingual call center has been staffed by Amelia Piecuch, who represents SWIRC incommunity partnership and directed SWIRCs recruitment and volunteer services. Furthersupporting our work has been a committed corp of 10 volunteers who provide translation servicesand assistance at our five weekly clinics. It takes a growing team to support our growing outreach. Finally, our success as an organization has been fueled by partnerships with organizations basedin and around Detroit. Thanks to the generous support of Ford Philanthropy SWIRC hosts ourfour, weekly Detroit-based legal clinics in clean, attractive, easy-to-find locations at no cost toSWIRC. Our long-time partnership with Ford Philanthropy also means we enjoy closerelationships with the other Ford partners that include: Gleaners Food Bank, Accounting AidSociety, Ser Metro, La Sed and Living Arts to name a few. Freedom House Detroit, the onlyemergency housing provider for non-English speaking Detroit residents has grown into a majorcooperating organization. All Ford Philanthropy partners receive programming support thatincludes transportation of clients, shared resources, and referrals. SWIRC is also allied closelywith local faith communities primarily the Presbytery of Detroit, who provides funding and thelocation of our Pontiac clinic, and Strangers No Longer, a Catholic-based group who also refersclients and sends SWIRC volunteers. SWIRC is especially skilled in providing culturally sensitive services. Eighty-two percent of ourclients are native Spanish speakers, which is why our entire staff is bilingualand most areimmigrants or the children of immigrants themselves. We serve sizable populations of Afghans,Middle Easterners, and Africans, which means we also provide in-clinic translators for French,Pashto, Dari, Urdu, and Arabic speakers. At SWIRC clients hear their language spoken by legalprofessionals or translators who look like them and share their experiences. SWIRCs successreflects our outstanding reputation in the immigrant community. After 10 years of providingconsistently excellent services, referrals from existing and former SWIRC clients fuels ourexplosive growth.

    Expenses $478,071

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Kevin Piecuch

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $86,250
    From this org
    $86,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jose Gaytan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $70,084
    From this org
    $70,084
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Colombo

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alex Vernon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Raquel Gonzalez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luis Mendez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carol Wright

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Contreras

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tamara York Cook

    Board Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Rosas

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
23 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202433189349302333

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