Hmong National Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521804060
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2025881661
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,383
- Expenses
- $991,991
- Assets
- $338,285
- Liabilities
- $366,532
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAY YER THAO (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MAY YER THAO (CEO): $289,916 total reported compensation
- REONA VANG (CFO): $213,292 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote educational opportunity, increase community capacity, and develop resources for well-being and growth. The organization embodies its mission and goals by bringing together community members and encouraging the participation of the hmong community in society.
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocacy and civic engagement - hnd advocates on behalf of hmong american communities at the national level. Hnd reviews advocacy as a tool to raise the visibility of the hmong american community and its issues to policy makers, legislators, and key stakeholders. We do this through two approaches: policy advocacy and civic engagement activities. This comprehensive approach to civic engagement and policy advocacy allows hnd to narrow its focus in addressing emerging challenges and issues faces by hmong american communities across the united states. The backbone of this program is guided by the principle of affecting long term social change that cultivates the development of the individual, the family, the organization, and the community in the united states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5,296.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $992K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $290K · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.