Cornerhouse
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411640731
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128138300
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,707,715
- Expenses
- $2,775,441
- Assets
- $899,523
- Liabilities
- $541,672
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE SHANNON (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTINE SHANNON (CEO): $151,293 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
What it reported doing in 2025
Training- since 1989, cornerhouse has been a leader in forensic interviewing, helping shape the field through the development of the cornerhouse forensic interview protocol (previously known as ratac). With decades of experience and expertise, we provide practicum-based training that equips professionals around the world with evidence-informed best practices for responding to children, youth, and vulnerable adults who disclose abuse or maltreatment. In 2025 cornerhouse conducted 96 training sessions with 6,627 people trained from Minnesota plus 14 other states, and several countries. To date, cornerhouse has trained more than 50,000 professionals across all 50 u.s. States and more than 20 countries, empowering multidisciplinary professionals to conduct interviews that are person-centered, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in trauma-informed practice.to date, cornerhouse has trained more than 50,000 professionals across all 50 u.s. States and more than 20 countries, empowering multidisciplinary professionals to conduct interviews that are person-centered, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in trauma-informed practice. As research and best practices continue to evolve, cornerhouse remains at the forefront of the field by regularly collaborating with national organizations, academic institutions, and subject matter experts to ensure our training reflects the latest evidence and emerging practices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.9% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.