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ROCKET GIVING FUND

EIN 83-0873868 DETROIT, MI

Largest nonprofits in Michigan

Revenue 2024
$11,590,910
Expenses 2024
$13,136,838

Program services were 91.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P12
Classification
1000
Street
1074 WOODWARD 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).

Other organizations at this address

7 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ROCKET GIVING FUND'S MISSION IS TO HOST A WORLD-CLASS PGA TOUR EVENT WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BENEFITING THE DETROIT COMMUNITY. THE ORGANIZATION'S PRIMARY FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY IS THE ROCKET CLASSIC, DETROIT'S ANNUAL PGA TOUR EVENT. THE NET PROCEEDS REALIZED BY THE EVENT AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS WILL GO BACK TO THE DETROIT COMMUNITY THROUGH INVESTMENTS RELATED TO BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE ACROSS THE CITY OF DETROIT, AND SUPPORTING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. THE ROCKET GIVING FUND IS A 501C3 ORGANIZATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ROCKET CLASSIC - THE ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT IS A CHARITABLE EVENT DESIGNED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE CORPORATION'S CHARITABLE MISSION. THE CORPORATION WILL MANAGE ALL PLANNING, PREPARATION, AND HOSTING. THE TOURNAMENT AND ITS RELATED ACTIVITIES WILL BE THE MAIN SOURCE OF FUNDRAISING, SUPPORTED BY SPONSORSHIPS, MERCHANDISE SALES, AND DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BEFORE AND DURING THE EVENT.

  • ROCKET CLASSIC - THE ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT IS A CHARITABLE EVENT DESIGNED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE CORPORATION'S CHARITABLE MISSION. THE CORPORATION WILL MANAGE ALL PLANNING, PREPARATION, AND HOSTING. THE TOURNAMENT AND ITS RELATED ACTIVITIES WILL BE THE MAIN SOURCE OF FUNDRAISING, SUPPORTED BY SPONSORSHIPS, MERCHANDISE SALES, AND DONOR CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BEFORE AND DURING THE EVENT.

    Expenses $11,962,118 · Grants $866,400 · Revenue $11,103,344

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.

  • Brian Brown

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • William Emerson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Matthew Rizik

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Steve Ogden

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Nic Barlage

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Marvin Beatty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Laura Grannemann

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeff Morganroth

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Trina Scott

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jason Tinsley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mike Tririco

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alexis Wiley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Varun Krishna

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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
    $11,590,910
    Expenses
    $13,136,838
    Contributions
    $620,144
    Grants paid
    $866,400
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,725,111
    Expenses
    $12,457,324
    Contributions
    $852,420
    Grants paid
    $36,335
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $14,851,439
    Expenses
    $13,350,664
    Contributions
    $786,175
    Grants paid
    $123,098
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,343,306
    Expenses
    $14,749,530
    Contributions
    $846,631
    Grants paid
    $1,591,886

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
    $13,264,068
    Expenses
    $13,809,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,590,205

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,910,910
    Expenses
    $7,539,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,947,099

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,661,752
    Expenses
    $14,588,588
    Assets (EOY)
    $963,719

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $1,855,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,843

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

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