Gamehaven Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
410698309
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Rochester, MN, USA
Phone
5072871410
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,875,197
Expenses
$772,084
Assets
$12,299,047
Liabilities
$295,523

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AARON BENIKE (PRESIDENT)
  • JOHN DEVLIN (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • ARNE LANDSVERK (SCOUT EXECUTIVE/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ARNE LANDSVERK (SCOUT EXECUTIVE/CEO): $80,869 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to help youth mature into wholesome, capable, contributing, and personally fit adults by instilling the values expressed in the scout oath and law. The scouting program facilitates meaningful contact and communications between youth, parents, and other community organizations (partners) to help young people adopt strong values and life skills. The program presents activities which are fun, interesting, and provide valuable experience directed at the maturity and interest of the young people at their appropriate age and ability levels. The purpose of gamehaven council is to manage and control the quality of the program, assemble and train volunteers, gather resources to implement, and to promote the programs' parents, youth and the general community in the seven counties of southeastern Minnesota.

What it reported doing in 2024

Learning for life/exploring - designed for young men and women ages 14 through 20 to gain insight into a variety of programs that offer leadership training, fitness, outdoor activities, service, and career hands-on experiences. Exploring promotes the conditions necessary for the growth and development of adolescent youth. The mission of learning for life is to serve others by helping to instill values of good character, participating citizenship, and personal fitness in young people, and in other ways to prepare them to make ethical choices throughout their lives so that they can achieve their full potential. It's designed to build confidence, motivation, and self-esteem. It can help students learn positive values and make ethical decisions. Character building is a lifelong process, with roots firmly planted in childhood. Learning for life has curriculum designed to fulfill its mission. There were 25 participants in 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.4%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $166.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 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: 92.2%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.93; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.4% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $681K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.