Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota

Nonprofit profile at a glance

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

21 people listed

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

To provide legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in northwest Minnesota.

Legal assistance on noncriminal proceedings on matters to indigent individuals in moorhead Minnesota and 22 surrounding counties.

Revenue model: No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited
Related-party transparency: Limited

Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Operating margin: Limited
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.