Civil Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411833074
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jul 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lake Elmo, MN, USA
Phone
6512910713
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$40,405
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WENDY SWISHER (PRESIDENT)
  • HIKMAT ACHEKZAI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • PATRICIA PEREZ-JENKINS (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • WENDY SWISHER (PRESIDENT)
  • HIKMAT ACHEKZAI (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOANN MCGUIRE (INTERIM TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization helped human trafficking and sexual assault victims to safety and to report the crime.

What it reported doing in 2024

Civil society's approach was proactive and community based. Civil society developed and utilized a nationally known best practice model, which brought to the forefront victimization, which often remained unreported. Civil society used its best practice model to provide comprehensive legal services to crime victims with funding from several sources.civil society previously provided legal advice and services to callers who were themselves victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking/cyber-stalking. Civil society previously provided a majority of its one-one-one legal services to minority individuals and their families, immigrants and refugees.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • 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.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.