Joint Religious Education and Research Fund J R E R F
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411455764
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512567583
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,011
- Expenses
- $206,119
- Assets
- $159,611
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leah Patton (Executive Director)
- Steve Hunegs (President)
People named in this filing
- Leah Patton (Executive Director)
- Steve Hunegs (President)
- Jason Adkins (Treasurer)
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
JRLC is an interfaith public interest group in Minnesota.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Joint Religious Education and Research Fund is an interfaith public interest group, with people of diverse faiths bringing vision and wisdom to the public realm for the well-being of Minnesotans.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21.2%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $163K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.