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DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

EIN 30-0135450 DETROIT, MI

Revenue 2024
$28,884,982
Expenses 2024
$6,180,165

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B11
Classification
1000
Street
3011 W GRAND BLVD SUITE 1004

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

DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to reach their full potential. This is achieved by executing fiducary responsibilities over donations.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO CREATE AND ENHANCE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND EDUCATORS.

  • DPSF oversees 18MM in funding to provide resources and wraparound supportive services to families, academic enrichment and career and college-ready preparedness to students, and training and development programs to teachers.

    Expenses $5,328,836

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.

  • KERRIE M MITCHELL

    PRESIDENT CEO

    Total calculated
    $175,050
    From this org
    $175,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $175,050
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $175,050

  • IRIS A TAYLOR

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN L BRUECKMAN

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GWENDOLYN L HATTEN BUTLER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOYCE HAYES GILES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RIAN BARNHILL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GINA COLEMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA KOPACK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK O LINDSEY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH CORREA

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES COLEMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES BRIGGS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARIENNE D HUDSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELIQUE PETERSON-MAYBERRY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALYCIA MERIWEATHER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KWAME SIMMONS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIKOLAI VITTI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANNON SMITH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIFFANY WITHERSPOON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles H Ellis III

    MEMBER

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $28,884,982
    Expenses
    $6,180,165
    Contributions
    $27,236,642
    Grants paid
    $4,849,291
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,629,296
    Expenses
    $4,926,646
    Contributions
    $2,922,424
    Grants paid
    $4,159,632
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,228,262
    Expenses
    $3,053,774
    Contributions
    $3,796,120
    Grants paid
    $2,421,084

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
    $3,244,071
    Expenses
    $3,266,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,132,449

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,732,219
    Expenses
    $8,710,877
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,212,797

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,670,036
    Expenses
    $13,964,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,989,425

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,070,776
    Expenses
    $3,334,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,644,909

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,923,262
    Expenses
    $2,996,018
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,389,281

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,526,058
    Expenses
    $1,712,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,540,646

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,156,880
    Expenses
    $1,164,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,520,374

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

  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $26,196,932

    2024 EDUCATION

  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $2,652,823

    2023 EDUCATION

  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    $2,396,084

    2022 EDUCATION

  • BREITHAUPT CAREER TECHNICAL CENTER

    $900,000

    2024 EDUCATION

  • AMELIA EARHART MIDDLE SCHOOL

    $180,000

    2024 EDUCATION

  • CAREER PATHWAYS

    $22,500

    2024 EDUCATION

  • HENRY FORD HIGH SCHOOL

    $14,000

    2024 EDUCATION

  • DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS

    $10,000

    2022 86TH ANNUAL DPSCD STUDEBT EXHIBITION

  • PALMER PARK PREPARATORY ACADEMY

    $10,000

    2024 EDUCATION

  • JIVE TURKEY DETROIT

    $5,000

    2022 THANKS GIVING FOOD DRIVE

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

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Grants received

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

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 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.