Green Card Voices
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463753490
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128897635
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $509,876
- Expenses
- $385,330
- Assets
- $253,411
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Tea Rozman (Co-Director): $84,815 total reported compensation
- Aaliyah Hannah (Co-Director): $80,256 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 integrate people across cultures and immigration histories, promoting tolerance and understanding among immigrants and their new communities through the art of storytelling.
What it reported doing in 2024
We achieve our program objectives and our mission through online videos, traveling exhibits, auto-biographical books and teaching guides, speaking events, Story Stitch Circles, and a podcast. Our 500 plus online video narratives of immigrants from over 150 countries are viewed 350,000 times annually. We have displayed our traveling exhibits at over 200 locations and they have been viewed by over 200,000 people. Our books have sold over 60,000 copies since May 2016. Our books have won several national awards, including Best Multicultural Non-Fiction Chapter Book from the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, and others. We have held in-person and virtual book readings at schools, libraries, universities, conferences, writing festivals and churches that have reached over 25,000 people. Our staff has given lectures and trainings throughout the Twin Cities in schools, at organizations, with public agencies, and at conferences. These presentations often include immigrant storytellers. Together with 70 community members in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we co-created Story Stitch, a conversational card deck designed to facilitate telling stories, opening minds, and helping people get to know their neighbors. We've sold over 5,000 decks, trained 150 people in Story Stitch Circle facilitation, and engaged over 100,000 people of different backgrounds in deep story sharing. In March 2020 we used the co-creation process to come up with Virtual Story Stitch with additional questions related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.3%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.3% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $231K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.