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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814359535
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Edina, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9522403501
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,507
- Expenses
- $125,591
- Assets
- $155,259
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Kraemer (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Bob Tift (Board Chair)
- Carolyn Smith (Vice Chair)
- Marsha Benshoof (Board 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
Visit and support people detained by ICE in Minnesota.
What it reported doing in 2025
We made deposits to the commissary accounts of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily in Minnesota county jails, so they could call their families and/or purchase supplemental food or hygiene items.The total number of people served in 2025 was about 948.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.4%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 37.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66.8% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.