Como Community Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
850595613
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6123783057
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Neighborhood Centers
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$85,866
Expenses
$27,370
Assets
$309,661
Liabilities
$150,000

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lawrence Crawford (President)

People named in this filing

  • Lawrence Crawford (President)
  • Wendy Menken (Treasurer)
  • Chris Swanson (Financial Review)

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

The purpose of this corporation, working independently and in partnership with other community organizations, is to acquire, preserve and rehabilitate, maintain, and operate the historic Como Congregational Church building, in whole or part (at 1037 14th Avenue SE in Minneapolis), as a community center.

What it reported doing in 2025

2022 -2025 Conducted historical interpretation of the building through open house and tour events; conducted community service by conducting community education classes; participated in historic preservation mission by consulting with MN preservation & history organizations such as the MN Historical Society; obtained renovation grants from National Trust for Historic Places and Reeve Foundation; received preservation awards for service achievement: Minneapolis Preservation Award and Rethos MN Preservation Award.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 68.1%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.31; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -52.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.