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SOULARDARITY

EIN 47-2733535 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2024
$1,364,781
Expenses 2024
$1,107,094

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C35
Classification
1000
Street
2200 HUNT ST STE 431

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

Soulardarity is working to install solar-powered streetlights, save money on energy bills, and work together with Highland Park, MI and neighboring communities to build a just and equitable energy system for all. Soulardarity endeavors to achieve this goal through education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy.

  • Movement Building. State-Level Energy Democracy- a series of campaigns and coalition work to achieve affordability, health, and community-owned clean energy aimed at DTE, the MI Public Service Commission, and the legislature. Soulardarity is the only community-based organization with a strong legal presence at the MPSC fighting and building toward goals of racial and economic justice. We have leveraged legal intervention with public campaign work to win material victories to rate payers of SE Michigan including stopping regressive rate hikes, getting concessions from DTE to build low-income benefitting solar projects, and getting public health considered in energy decisions.

    Expenses $553,547 · Grants $652,390

  • Asset Development: Highland Park Campaign Team-a campaign to make Highland Park, MI a global model of sustainability and self-determination, targeted at the City of Highland Park, organized around the Blueprint for Energy Democracy, the product of seven years of community organizing, research, and democratic practice and guide for our multi-issue work. Grow Solar Highland Park-Detroit-a public education and bulk purchasing program that makes going solar easier and more affordable. Creates access to energy-related products and services for Low-to-Moderate-Income ratepayers and members in support of a just transition to clean energy. Eligibility extends to property owners throughout the Detroit metro area and Wayne County. Once per year we offer the MREA sponsored RiseUP Training course established in 2020 to support workforce development efforts and expand employment access in advanced energy by providing solar training scholarships and facilitation paid solar internships. Graduates of the RiseUP Training Program provide students with free, hands-on solar training that can take them from "square one" all the way to their NABCP PV Associate Exam. We are currently working with Polar Bear Sustainable Energy Co-op to implement a home solar bulk purchase program and weatherization/home repair program as case studies of community wealth building through clean energy. Under this program we are preparing to launch a Loan Loss Reserve program - a credit enhancement approach commonly used by state and local governments to provide partial risk coverage to lenders-meaning that the reserve will cover a pre-specified amount of loan losses for those looking to weatherize, electrify, and participate in the bulk purchase or solarize their homes.

    Expenses $553,547 · Grants $685,391

  • There are only two program areas to report on

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Shimekia Nichols

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $69,750
    From this org
    $69,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michelle F Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kimberly McDade

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Camille Sippel

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Gambrill

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kenneth Bates

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joel Simmons

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,364,781
    Expenses
    $1,107,094
    Contributions
    $1,364,710
    Grants paid
    $750
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $568,440
    Expenses
    $953,160
    Contributions
    $568,177
    Grants paid
    $7,833
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,270,326
    Expenses
    $925,242
    Contributions
    $1,270,042
    Grants paid
    $2,464

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $318,657
    Expenses
    $425,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $466,751

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,376
    Expenses
    $520,474
    Assets (EOY)
    $404,943

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $331,793
    Expenses
    $296,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,431

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $322,392
    Expenses
    $318,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,217

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $152,649
    Expenses
    $99,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $128,942

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Jackson Koeppel
Mailing address
12511 Woodward AveHighland Park MI 48203
Website
soulardarity.nationbuilder.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2015, reinstated 15 May 2015.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.