Community Mediation & Restorative Servic

What it reported doing in 2025

Housing servicescommunity mediation & restorative services provides a variety of housing stability mediation and navigation services, working to improve housing stability in our local communities. Lifting up the collective wisdom of over 20,000 renter-owner meditations, cmrs is strategically moving services upstream and collaboratively addressing the resource runaround by increasing collaboration among resource providers - integrating financial, legal, and mediation resources. Cmrs had 331 housing resource navigation cases in 2025.see schedule o for addtional program language.with a multilingual team of housing navigators - including ampact americorps members - and trained mediators serving in the community and court, cmrs is helping renters to identify the resources needed to improve their situations and help connect them with their property owners to communicate and create pathways forward. Youth servicescmrs youth services are grounded in the belief that all youth are worthy, capable, and relational. We work with schools to increase their community's capacity to build community and repair harm. Using the circle process, based on indigenous ways of being, we work with youth and schools to hold spaces and conversations where youth can participate in a way that works for them and respond to conflict and harm. We also work with juvenile court, the hennepin county attorney's office, and law enforcement to divert youth from the justice system to community-based processes designed to merge support and accountability. Building on our work to create restorative schools, cmrs trains staff in how to implement restorative practices and culture in their work with youth. Cmrs provided 132 restorative services in 2025. Cmrs partnered with 3 schools, 2 school districts, juvenile court, and hennepin county police department.court and community mediation services and restorative practicesgrounded in the belief that people can resolve their own conflicts, cmrs works with court partners to allow disputants to co-create their agreements. We provide mediation services at all stages of disputes - before a court filing, during a court hearing, and following a court hearing. Cmrs mediators are in housing and harassment courts and help people involved in family, conciliation, probate, and district court disputes. Cmrs also provides community-based mediation and restorative services, helping people have difficult and constructive conversations. Through mediation, participants can hear and be heard and co-create agreements that fit their unique circumstances. Through restorative practices, participants build community and repair harm. Services address situations involving neighbors, families, workplaces, businesses, and customers, and organizations. Cmrs also facilitates large group conversations and spearheads community collaborations, building bridges across sectors.cmrs helped disputants create their own resolution through 165 mediation sessions in 2025. Cmrs handled a total of 736 mediation and navigation cases in 2025. Cmrs serves as an organizational mentor or fiscal sponsor - supporting mission-aligned work of geographically or culturally specific organizations and providing leadership in creating statewide access to services through community mediation Minnesota. Specifically, cmrs serves as the fiscal sponsor of restorative and mediation practices (ramp), a community dispute resolution program in southeast Minnesota. Social work, criminal justice and law degrees.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: $53.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 3rd 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th 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: 17.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 15.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings