Community Reporter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411352659
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6514709568
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,855
- Expenses
- $59,875
- Assets
- $22,571
- Liabilities
- $15,097
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Dickman (President)
People named in this filing
- Jonathan Dickman (President)
- Damian Goebel (Editor)
- Ailie Deloia (Bookkeeper)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provision of free local community newspaper and website.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community networking and collaboration via provision of local and community news and commentary; schedules of events and invitations; public information about agency and government activities to residents, businesses and agencies in Wards 3 and 4 of St Paul, MN
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.