Evergreen Youth & Family Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411297737
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Bemidji, MN, USA
Phone
2187518223
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Temporary Housing

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,615,125
Expenses
$2,635,993
Assets
$1,336,782
Liabilities
$620,230

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EBONY WARREN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JULIA MONTEBELLO (FINANCE/OPERATIONS DIRECTOR): $131,849 total reported compensation
  • EBONY WARREN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $119,661 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 organization's mission is committed to strengthening youth, preserving families, and building relationships with an emphasis on those living in northern Minnesota. The organization serves a region of the state that is highly remote, rural, and disadvantaged. The organization employs approximately 30 full and part-time staff that provide comprehensive services from two sites. All the organization's services are free to youth and families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Transitional housing, stay foster programming, street outreach and drop-in services are located in the evergreen youth services site which is anchored by the youth drop-in center which is open 36 hours per week. The drop-in center provides day shelter, meals, snacks, laundry and shower facilities, computer access, a youth emergency food pantry, hygiene products, and baby supplies. The staff at the drop-in-center provide safe and supportive adult guidance and referrals to multiple evergreen programs including youth shelter, transitional housing, independent living skills, referrals to on-site mental health therapy, safe harbor and crime victim services as well as referrals to other community based programming. Evergreen has a continuum of housing options including a transitional living program with on-site units and scattered site housing, rapid rehousing and prevention funding. Services include intensive case management, development of an independent living plan, financial assistance, and skill building. Skills groups teach skills in self-sufficiency, finance, communication, and train youth in social and emotional well-being and relationships. Youth receive help with employment, parenting, accessing mainstream resources and continuing their education. Youth also receive support to address mental health, alcohol and drug issues, pregnancy and sti/std prevention. In 2025 evergreen served 18 youth in on-site housing, 24 in scattered site housing or in prevention or rapid rehousing. Stay foster youth services served 24 youth. In 2025 there were 3,329 client drop-in visits and street outreach made 1630 contacts with youth in the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.5%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $45.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.5% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.