Heart of the City Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411812336
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Anoka, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6129906192
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $261,282
- Expenses
- $244,204
- Assets
- $83,514
- Liabilities
- $3,893
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Adler (President)
- Sandy Adler (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Daniel Adler (President): $76,450 total reported compensation
- Danielle Super (Communications Manager): $31,880 total reported compensation
- Sandy Adler (Vice President): $14,520 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring a message, model and experience of multi-ethnic worship and Biblical unity to Christians, and the Gospel to those who are not Christians yet. Since 2018, the mission continues through hosting stylisticly and ethnically diverse concerts in MN
What it reported doing in 2025
The A New Kind of Warrior CD was in 2024 and 2025 and was released in November of 2025. With this being a project that is primarily being given away to Native Americans, we have heard great feedback from those who have received it regarding the hopeful message it contains. Only a handful of them are sold online and in person. This album and our We Speak Life album are both made to be given away to mostly Native Americans as an outreach tool. We also recently had a Native American radio station in Winnepeg, Canada do a live interview with Dan Adler and play several of our songs from the New Kind of Warrior Album That interview was replayed 2 more times after that. Station also requested for 20 CDs to giveaway on-air
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $179K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $76K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.