Bluff Country Family Resources
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411502808
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hokah, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5078942676
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $330,613
- Expenses
- $295,539
- Assets
- $396,641
- Liabilities
- $79,276
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE DIDOMENICO (PRESIDENT)
- RANDE GUSTAFSON (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- SARA GILMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PART YEAR)
- BRITTNEY EYMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SARA GILMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PART YEAR): $41,167 total reported compensation
- BRITTNEY EYMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $24,725 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bluff country family resources provides community education, and non-judgmental, confidential crisis intervention, advocacy, support, and resources to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
In the most recent organizational fiscal year, bluff country family resources (bcfr) staffed the office location during regular business hours and provided 365 days of our 24-hour, toll-free crisis line, which connects victims/survivors with a trained advocate anytime they call. The services we provide include: emergency hotel/motel stays for survivors fleeing violence, personal and legal advocacy from our staff advocates, who assist survivors in completing orders for protection, court accompaniment, safety planning, and provision of basic need items, support groups for survivors of violence, information and referrals for other resources in our area to create more well-rounded care for clients, community education about domestic violence and sexual assault through presentations with local organizations, schools, and groups, support for family and friends of survivors to help them better understand and assist a survivor through their situation, and assistance in acquiring a safe address through Minnesota's safe at home program for folks who have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence. .
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $66.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $185K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.