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Filing year 2024

DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC

Detroit, Michigan·EIN 30-0125283·NTEE N32 · Recreation & Sports·3
Total revenue
$38.9M
Total assets
$194.3M
Total expenses
$12M
Reported officers
54
Mission

THE DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY (DRFC), IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, IMPROVEMENT, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, SECURITY, PROGRAMMING AND EXPANSION OF THE DETROIT RIVERWALK AND ASSOCIATED GREEN SPACES. THROUGH ITS PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, THE DRFC WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RIVERFRONT DISTRICT AND FACILITATE COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE WATERFRONT.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Chief Development Officer
$226k
$238k
Base
$200k
Bonus
$1k
Other
Benefits
$9k
President and C.e.o. - Thru 5/2024
$198k
$209k
Base
$174k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$9k
VP of Operations & Programming
vice president
$150k
$158k
Senior Director of Development
$150k
$158k
Executive in Charge of Construction
highest compensated employee
$134k
$141k
C.f.o. - Thru 5/2024
officer (unspecified)
$101k
$107k
Chief Executive Officer
$63k
$66k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 47 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Recreation & Sports

Down 42%
from 2023

From $387k in 2023 to $226k in 2024.

$387k
2023
$226k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 43% in real terms$421k to $238k

Estimated with Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$45.8M
$17.3M
2023
$38.9M
$12M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Recreation & Sports executives earn

Comparable recreation & sports organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $42,799.

25th percentile
$13k
Median
$42,799
75th percentile
$95k
90th percentile
$178k

These are recreation & sports sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 1,750 organizations across 1,750 filings (2021 – 2023).

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