Friends of Mint Plaza
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510654366
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7476667469
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,603
- Expenses
- $12,481
- Assets
- $8,864
- Liabilities
- $155,555
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM PERRAULT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HELENE SAUTOU (DIRECTOR)
- TOM PERRAULT (PRESIDENT)
- WILBUR YU (DIRECTOR)
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
Fomp works to ensure that mint plaza is a vibrant, safe, and memorable public space for the use and enjoyment of visitors and neighborhood residents alike through ongoing maintenance, programming, and general management of the plaza area. To accomplish its mission, fomp has established the following performance goals: 1. Ensure that the plaza remains a treasured public space, accessible to all and preserved for future generations of san franciscans. 2. Maintain the plaza in a clean and orderly fashion that makes it a safe and inviting place for people of all ages and incomes to enjoy at all hours of the day. 3. Activate the plaza area through thoughtful and creative programming, including art and dance exhibitions, live music, and public art
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of mint plaza hosted public events fees and permits cost are due to city of san francisco event-specific service which are maintenance street closings and crowd control.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.2%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 17.55; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.2% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.