Deaf Equity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611807936
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,536
- Expenses
- $128,507
- Assets
- $143,000
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Migdalia Rogers (Finance Lead)
- Del Anderson (Volunteer Support)
- JulieAnn Scott (Volunteer Support)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Deaf Equity's primary exempt purpose is to advance equity and access for Diverse members of the Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing community through Education, Community Engagement, Empowerment and Advocacy. All of the work we do is through volunteerism. We offer opportunities that are accessible, barrier free and inclusive of our community. We offer these free and with support to access these opportunities. Our organization is UNIQUE and the ONLY one in Minnesota that offers services to all ages, enhancing the quality of life for all who are Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing. Check us out at www.deafequitymn.org
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Education and E Learning empowers Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of hearing with opportunities to present their info, train others, and offer it in American Sign Language. This is called the Empowerment Series. Many in our community often do not have the space, support or training to advance their skills. DE provides this support. In addition, provides the E learning topics and education free of charge and accessible in their language (ASL, through Deaf Blind interpreters) in person or on zoom. Topics like Suicide awareness and prevention, Asian American Culture and Microaggressions, budgeting, how to present, breast cancer awareness are offered through captions or voice but never in ASL. Through this we also offer culture immersion experiences so people can increase their awareness working with diverse members of their community, for example. DeafBlind community Immersion, taught us how to guide, how to communicate with DeafBlind, and how to use Pro Tactile. Community Engagement Opportunities programs offer all ages youth to Seniors opportunity to engage in activities accessible to them. Some examples include Self-Defense, Family Friendly events such as Fall Adventures, Community Gathering, Cookout and Deaf Eco System fair. At these events, members are connected, it helps reduce isolation, share information supports mental health and well being and connects members of the community to resources that they need. These also include partnerships with hearing partners such a Twins for a baseball clinic for deaf youth and kids, Day Camp for D, DB, HH kid, family social for parents who are hearing with deaf kids and more. Advocacy, Training and Consultations has three hats. One is to provide direct services to our community for support that they need whether it is using the Deaf Community Health workers in our program to connect to housing, lawyers, free food shelfs services, or to requiring support advocating at the clinics for access or filing reports. We provide referral to our client and help them navigate the system. We also provide training and consultations to hearing service providers who do want to welcome deaf community members but do not have the skills to do so. We help assess, and provide them with skills they need to make change to welcome them. If you check our website at www.deafequitymn.org you can see more of the work we do, or if you follow us on FB or IG.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 41%; rating input score 41
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: -33.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 41% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.