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Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921226616
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Detroit Lakes, MN, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,789
Expenses
$9,542
Assets
$179,303

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • John Swiers (President-Chairman)
  • Justin Swiers (Vice President-Vice Chairman)

People named in this filing

  • John Swiers (President-Chairman)
  • Karen Mulari (Treasurer)
  • Justin Swiers (Vice President-Vice Chairman)

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

Offer a building for community outreach and offering a safe environment for local community to gather at a minimal cost.

What it reported doing in 2025

The outer shell of the community center is nearly complete. The main structure is roofed and steel has been completed on the exterior of the main structure. The entry is sheeted but not yet sided. There has been community building as the community has come together to help to build the structure.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 88%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.79; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 70.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.