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DEVELOP DETROIT INC

EIN 81-1368616 DETROIT, MI

Revenue 2025
$5,489,059
Expenses 2025
$4,513,470

Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S30
Classification
1000
Street
1452 RANDOLPH ST STE 300

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 · 2025

Mission

SEE PAGE 1, QUESTION 1

Activities or mission (Part I)

DEVELOP DETROIT, INC. IS A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FIRM FOCUSED ON PROVIDING AFFORDABLE AND MIXED INCOME HOUSING, AS WELL AS STRATEGIC ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL HELP STABILIZE AND TRANSFORM DISINVESTED NEIGHBORHOODS. DDI RENOVATES AND REDEVELOPS PROPERTIES INTO HIGH QUALITY, INCLUSIVE HOUSING THAT IS WELL-DESIGNED AND ACCESSIBLE TO A BROAD RANGE OF DETROITERS. THE FIRM DEVELOPS ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF REAL ESTATE PROJECT TYPES, INCLUDING SINGLE-FAMILY REHABILITATION AND INFILL AND MULTI- FAMILY PRESERVATION.

  • REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT - WE IMAGINE, DESIGN AND BUILD BEAUTIFUL HOUSING. WE CREATE MIXED-INCOME COMMUNITIES AND SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ACROSS DETROIT FOR THE FULL RANGE OF DETROITERS. OUR WORK IS AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO STABILIZING AND GROWING NEIGHBORHOODS DECIMATED BY THE RECENT HOUSING CRISIS.

    Expenses $3,533,978 · Revenue $2,280,413

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • SONYA MAYS

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $281,259
    From this org
    $247,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,759
    Hours/week
    39.5 + 0.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $247,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,515
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,244
    Filer's total
    $281,259

  • KATE KOHN-PARROTT

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.5

  • JASON PAULATEER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.5

  • LAURA GRANNEMANN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.5

  • MELISSA WORDEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • SHERRIE FARRELL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • GWEN BUTLER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • ROBIN KINLOCH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • RON STALLWORTH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • ERIC CHATMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • SEAN WERDLOW

    MEMBER (UNTIL 12/31/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • MARK MEIER

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $189,044
    From this org
    $160,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,044
    Hours/week
    38.75 + 1.25 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,244
    Filer's total
    $189,044

  • CRAIG WILLIAN

    CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $218,833
    From this org
    $185,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,833
    Hours/week
    39.5 + 0.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $185,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,092
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,741
    Filer's total
    $218,833

  • ANTHONY PIPITONE

    CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $131,250
    From this org
    $125,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,250
    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. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,489,059
    Expenses
    $4,513,470
    Contributions
    $3,208,646
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,096,538
    Expenses
    $4,659,972
    Contributions
    $3,514,569
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,822,593
    Expenses
    $4,094,725
    Contributions
    $3,698,856
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,044,261
    Expenses
    $3,865,351
    Contributions
    $3,445,936
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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
    $4,872,421
    Expenses
    $4,882,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,520,597

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,642,414
    Expenses
    $4,473,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,758,650

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $235,791
    Expenses
    $2,620,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,615,268

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,178,689
    Expenses
    $2,880,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,997,814

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,205,063
    Expenses
    $2,025,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,478,632

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,886,017
    Expenses
    $1,722,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,935,502

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 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Sonya Mays
Mailing address
535 Griswold Street Suite 1600Detroit MI 48226
Website
www.developdetroit.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 2025 return

Related partnerships on its 2025 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

  • DEVELOP DETROIT PROPERTIES INC

    C · PROPERTY ACQUISITION AND REHABILITATION · MI · 100% owned · share of income $433,097 · share of assets $5,614,343 · controlled entity

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.