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DIPLOMA EQUITY PROJECT

EIN 86-3315625 SHELBY TWP, MI

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Revenue 2024
$1,540,611
Expenses 2024
$1,345,881

Program services were 93.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
55511 KINGSWAY DR

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 ORGANIZATION WORKS WITH K-12, HIGHER EDUCATION AND OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE RATES OF COLLEGE PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION.

  • DIPLOMA EQUITY PROJECT DEP SUPPORTED A NUMBER OF INITIATIVES AIMED AT INCREASING THE COLLEGE COMPLETION RATES OF BOTH DETROITERS AND MICHIGANDERS IN SUPPORT OF THE STATES 60 HIGHER EDUCATION ATTAINMENT BY 2030 GOAL AS WELL AS CLOSING THE COMPLETION GAPS FOR STUDENTS BASED ON RACE, INCOME AND GEOGRAPHY. DEP FACILITATED PARTNERSHIPS WITH SEVEN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITIES AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES AIMED AT REDESIGNING THEIR EXISTING STUDENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO BETTER SERVE FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS AND RETURNING ADULT LEARNERS. ADDITIONALLY, DEP CONTINUED ITS SUPPORT OF DEGREE FORWARD, A COMPETENCY-BASED DEGREE PROGRAM THROUGH SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY THAT PROVIDES A FAST, FLEXIBLE, AND ACCREDITED DEGREE PROGRAM FOR WORKING ADULTS AND PAIRS THE ONLINE PROGRAMMING WITH THE WRAP AROUND SUPPORTS ADULT STUDENTS NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL LIKE CHILDCARE, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUCCESS COACHING.

    Expenses $1,259,812

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.

  • Melissa Hamann

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Khary Turner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jack Elsey

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Doug Ross

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Carol Goss

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Machion Jackson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Angie Reyes

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shirley Stancato

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Walsh

    MEMBER

    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
    $1,540,611
    Expenses
    $1,345,881
    Contributions
    $1,540,611
    Grants paid
    $556,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $971,626
    Expenses
    $839,455
    Contributions
    $971,626
    Grants paid
    $100,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,256,480
    Expenses
    $1,139,001
    Contributions
    $1,256,480
    Grants paid
    $130,000

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
    $1,038,045
    Expenses
    $682,177
    Assets (EOY)
    $449,299

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 2020

Tax period
1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021
Principal officer
Melissa Hamann
Mailing address
55511 Kingsway DriveShelby Township MI 48316
Website
www.diplomaequityproject.org

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

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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 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.