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DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION

EIN 38-2858649 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2024
$718,641
Expenses 2024
$523,652

Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
6201 2ND AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION IS TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF METRO DETROIT RESIDENTS BY DEVELOPING PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE EDUCATION, MENTORING, ATHLETICS, HEALTH, FITNESS AND NUTRITION. PISTONS FOUNDATION MAKES ANNUAL GRANTS TO UNDERPRIVELIGED YOUTH TO PROMOTE THE PURSUIT OF A HIGHER EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEVELOPING PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE EDUCATION, MENTORING, ATHLETICS, HEALTH, FITNESS AND NUTRITION. PISTONS FOUNDATION MAKES ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS TO UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH TO PROMOTE THE PURSUIT OF A HIGHER EDUCATION.

  • THE DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION DONATES TICKETS TO CHARITIES SO THAT UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND VETERANS CAN ATTEND A PISTONS GAME.

    Expenses $224,995 · Grants $224,995

  • DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TO NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN WAYNE, OAKLAND AND MACOMB COUNTIES, WITH A FOCUS ON THE CITY OF DETROIT.

    Expenses $150,764 · Grants $150,764

  • THE DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION GRANTS SCHOLARSHIPS TO DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ONCE A YEAR AT THEIR ANNUAL BLACK HISTORY EVENT. THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS EVENT IS TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS WHO NORMALLY WOULDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE CONSIDERED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP.

    Expenses $75,000 · Grants $75,000

  • THE DETROIT PISTONS FOUNDATION PROVIDED AID TO UNDERPIVILEGED IN THE DETROIT COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $49,782

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Megan Churches

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Eva Kalawski

    VP/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Nicolet Lewis

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

  • Mary Ann Sigler

    CHAIRMAN/TRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $718,641
    Expenses
    $523,652
    Contributions
    $587,815
    Grants paid
    $450,759
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $470,492
    Expenses
    $466,435
    Contributions
    $326,402
    Grants paid
    $351,984
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $577,717
    Expenses
    $404,108
    Contributions
    $521,563
    Grants paid
    $346,814

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $752,515
    Expenses
    $1,171,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,682

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $849,079
    Expenses
    $772,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,353,873

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,302,235
    Expenses
    $756,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,448,799

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $913,216
    Expenses
    $590,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $587,167

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $913,216
    Expenses
    $590,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $587,167

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.