Family Advocacy Center of Northern Mn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202102302
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bemidji, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2183336156
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $593,071
- Expenses
- $569,983
- Assets
- $459,878
- Liabilities
- $31,626
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR ELIZABETH MURPHY (PRESIDENT)
- COURTNEY HASKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHIEF MIKE MASTIN (VICE PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
- JODIE SUNDERLAND (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JODIE SUNDERLAND (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $74,349 total reported compensation
- COURTNEY HASKINS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $35,067 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organizations purpose is to provide compassionate, appropriate, and timely health services, forensic evaluations, referrals, case management, and promote a collaborative, multidisciplinary, regional response to abuse
What it reported doing in 2024
Facility based program in which representatives from many diciplines work together to conduct forensic interviews, medical exams and make team decisions about the investigations, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse cases, along with support for community efforts to address the crime fo sexual assault by establishing a process for accurate evidence collection and support for sexual assult survivors.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $530K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.