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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834396235
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Coon Rapids, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122170865
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protection Against Abuse
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,996
- Expenses
- $319,941
- Assets
- $11,935
- Liabilities
- $1,353
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHENG THAO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PHENG THAO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LEEFONG VANG (BOARD MEMBER)
- JON VANG TAO (BOARD CHAIR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mobilizing a national network of southeast asian men and masculine folks to do direct action organizing, education and healing to transform patriarchal power systems.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided speaking, training and support for over 250 individuals. Outreached to over 500 folks in community. Provided over 20 trainings. Provided technical assistance capacity support for over 5 organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74
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: -153.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 44.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $238K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.