LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411886110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127295799
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Senior Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $316,667
- Expenses
- $260,214
- Assets
- $767,293
- Liabilities
- $44,725
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Albrecht (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary Albrecht (Executive Director): $41,819 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Longfellow/Seward Healthy Seniors Program is to enable community seniors to live healthy, independent and socially connected lives. Our service area includes five south Minneapolis neighborhoods: Longfellow, Seward, Cooper, Howe, and Hiawatha. The area is bounded by the Mississippi River on the east; Hwy. 55 on the west; Interstate 94 on the north; and Minnehaha Falls Park on the south. We also provide outreach to three adjoining neighborhoods including Cedar Riverside, Ventura Village and Philips West to provide outreach to the BIPOC community and the Somali refugee population in particular. We're a Living at Home/Block Nurse Program and a member of the Living at Home Network.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 was a year of transition, resilience, and forward movement for Longfellow/Seward Healthy Seniors (LSHS). During this time of transition, LSHS provided a steady presence for members, for each other, and for the LSHS community.Expanded services and programs included Nurse Is In clinics at Soup for You and in Cedar-Riverside, a Volunteer Caregiver Training, and Healthy Eating classes in both English and Somali. LSHS expanded food support services to help meet the basic needs of older adults in our neighborhoods. LSHS hosted a Holiday Party for its members. During 2025, 731 total members were served, 335 members received health services, 585 members received support services, 326 members joined social activities, and 2,077 volunteer hours were donated.
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 99% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $185K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.