All Square

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813572476
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6127789880
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,674,842
Expenses
$2,391,864
Assets
$2,492,770
Liabilities
$661,660

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MAYA PENNINGTON (CEO)
  • EMILY HUNT TURNER (CEO(FORMER)/)

Highest reported compensation

  • MAYA PENNINGTON (CEO): $150,126 total reported compensation
  • EMILY HUNT TURNER (CEO(FORMER)/): $136,984 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

All square is a nonprofit social enterprise that invests in people impacted by the criminal legal system. We seek to empower people impacted by the criminal legal system to move forward with healing, community, and hope. We fight for a world where those who finish their legal sentences are all square, meaning truly unencumbered by their criminal records socially, economically, and politically. All square invests in people by running a nonprofit, employment, social enterprise restaurant and food truck and a corresponding fellowship program. The restaurant & food truck - your go to spot for grilled cheese in minneapolis, serving up employment opportunities for justice-impacted folks. Our food truck brings grilled cheese on the move expanding our outreach and employment offerings. The fellowship - a personal and professional development program exclusively for individuals who have returned home from prison. Through the fellopowship, fellows can opt into no-cost wellness and therapy resour

What it reported doing in 2025

Founded in 2016, all square is a direct response to the systemic exclusion of currently and formerly incarcerated people from economic mobility, social capital and wealth accumulation. Our mission is to heal the harms created by the criminal legal system by changing the way criminal records are used and viewed. Our work first operationalized in 2018 with our restaurant and fellowship program. Through this program, fellows maintain competitive employment in our craft grilled cheese restaurant and/or food truck while receiving free civil legal services and individual/family therapy. Graduates of the fellowship are eligible for debt alleviation and seed capital through our fellow fund. In 2021, we expanded our work to include our legal arm: the prison to law pipeline and law firm. This arm, which is a nonprofit subsidiary, is coined "the legal revolution." it exists to ensure that those most impacted by the law have access to positions of power and wealth accumulation within the law, specifically through legal education and employment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 69
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.2%; rating input score 99; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -42.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.