Advocates for Reproductive Education

What it reported doing in 2025

Weare - the clinic, a reproductive health clinic, opened in october 2017. We have had over 5000 client visits since opening, providing education, affordable birth control options, and/or testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (sti). All clients are screened for enrollment into the Minnesota family planning program (mfpp). Mfpp covers free and confidential family planning services, including annual exams, birth control, sti testing and treatment, and pregnancy testing. This is especially important for youth or young adults who don't wish to use their parents' insurance because of confidentiality. Weare is the only healthcare organization in crow wing county enrolling clients in mfpp. About 45% of our clients enroll in mfpp. Weare operates 2 outreach clinics. Weare@clc is our outreach clinic located on the campus at clc. This clinic is staffed with an rn and offers free education, sti testing/treatment and emergency contraception and pregnancy tests available to the more than 3900 students who attend the college. Clients wanting birth control options, including condoms, oral contraceptives, rings, patches, iuds, and implants, are referred to the weare - the clinic location. Weare also operates a weekly outreach clinic at the relationship safety alliance (formerly mid-Minnesota women's center) and is staffed weekly with an rn to provide individual appointments for the residents (female victims of intimate partner violence). We offer on-site sti and pregnancy testing and refer to weare - the clinic for follow-up, birth control, or other reproductive health services. We are piloting a growing sti drop box program to allow community members to self-screen for chlamydia and gonorrhea privately, drop their samples confidential and conveniently in community locations, and receive treatment if needed.weare - the clinic provided over 850 appointments in 2025, an all time record for the clinic. This demonstrates both the increasing need for our services and the growing trust we are building within the community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $19.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings