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BASBLUE INC

EIN 85-4027726 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2024
$2,199,261
Expenses 2024
$2,627,285

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P51
Classification
1000
Street
115 EAST FERRY STREET

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

TO CREATE PATHWAYS AND OPEN DOORS FOR WOMEN AND NONBINARY INDIVIDUALS FOR CONNECTION, CREATIVITY AND DISCOVERY THROUGH A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY, CURATED PROGRAMS, EDUCATION, AND CULTURALLY ENRICHING EXPERIENCES.

  • FROM MEMBER MATCHING EVENTS, TO MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS, SOCIAL GATHERINGS, EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS, AND MORE, MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO COME TOGETHER FOR CURATED EVENTS CATERING TO THE CURIOSITIES AND CARES OF THE COMMUNITY. DURING THE 2024 CALENDAR YEAR, 93 INDIVIDUALS WERE GRANTED FREE MEMBERSHIP THROUGH THE TRAILBLAZER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM.

    Expenses $1,957,788 · Grants $218,545 · Revenue $438,167

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.

  • Deena Bahri

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jennifer Gilbert

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gretchen Gonzalez Davidson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Holly Gores

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ping Ho

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Honorable Bridget McCormmack

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cindy Pasky

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Angelique Powers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tanya Salivdar-Ali

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Espy Thomas

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carla Walker Miller

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Natacha Hildebrand

    VICE PRESIDENT/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $30,132
    From this org
    $30,132
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Nancy Tellem

    PRESIDENT/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Maria Baker

    CEO (THROUGH 5/14/24)

    Total calculated
    $53,844
    From this org
    $51,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,344
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ellen Gilchrist

    CEO (BEGAN 6/3/24)

    Total calculated
    $94,808
    From this org
    $94,808
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tiara Tinnin

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $106,991
    From this org
    $101,018
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,973
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,199,261
    Expenses
    $2,627,285
    Contributions
    $1,673,310
    Grants paid
    $218,545
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,643,664
    Expenses
    $1,890,192
    Contributions
    $2,440,872
    Grants paid
    $121,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,888,869
    Expenses
    $1,320,011
    Contributions
    $2,783,441
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,315,171
    Expenses
    $499,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,151,266
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,315,280
    Expenses
    $524,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,176,979

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

  • INFINITE HAIR GROWTH

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

  • LINKED WORKFORCE LLC

    $10,000

    2024 FOUNDERS AND FUND(HERS) AWARD

  • PANGOO APPAREL LLC

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

  • REGEILY LLC

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

  • THE CANDIDLY SPEAKING LLC

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

  • THE MUSHROOM ANGEL COMPANY

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

  • WALTER PATS BAKERY CAFE

    $10,000

    2024 ZERO TO ONE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • BASBLEU LLC

    CATERING · MI · income $338,810 · assets $22,790

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 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.