Convene
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882849019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- St Louis Park, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6124818059
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,843
- Expenses
- $89,772
- Assets
- $1,465
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Josh Dye (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Josh Dye (Executive Director)
- Shannon Dye (Treasurer)
- Scott Moe (Secretary)
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
Provide technical assistance and professional support and development to government organizations, nonprofits, and the general public to help them more effectively serve their audiences and maximize their potential. This includes, but is not limited to people, entities, and systems that serve people experiencing homeless people with low incomes, people with disabilities, and others with life challenges.
What it reported doing in 2025
Convene provides technical assistance for the Hennepin Coordinated Entry System that helps people experiencing homelessness connect to housing and services. The technical assistance I provide includes creating training and resources for assessors, housing providers, and the community at large to help professionals follow best practices and achieve greater efficiency. It also includes utilizing technology to create automation and efficiency with housing provider referral requests and tracking, and transfers, and in helping people experiencing homelessness connect to the Coordinated Entry system. Convene also creates and distributes communications on behalf of the Hennepin Coordinated Entry System. Here is a summary for 2025: 58 - Assessors Onboarded 150 - Assessors completing refresh training 10 - Housing Providers Onboarded 244 - Attendees of CES 101 156 - Attendees of Quarterly Housing Provider Training 1,317 Views and 25,319 Impressions of Step by Step HMIS Training 1,574 - Referral Request Submissions 9,670 - Completions of the Housing Help Tool 643 - Submissions of Shelter Stay Verification
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- 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: 1.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -100.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.