Mrci
Legal name: Mankato Rehabilitation Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410736870
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2021
- Location
- Mankato, MN, United States
- Phone
- (507) 386-5600
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sheltered Employment
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,061,265
- Expenses
- $179,446,787
- Assets
- $47,287,913
- Liabilities
- $15,749,546
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK DEHEN (PRESIDENT)
- VANCE STUEHRENBERG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PATRICK WESTHOFF (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICK WESTHOFF (CEO): $234,100 total reported compensation
- JEFF CALL (CFO): $202,537 total reported compensation
- TAMI REUTER (CMO): $178,629 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating innovative and genuine opportunities for people with disabilities or disadvantages at home, at work and in the community. MRCI is one of Minnesota's largest and most diverse providers of employment , day and self-directed services. We are a private, nonprofit organization, that serves individuals in Southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities Metro Area. At MRCI, the focus is on helping individuals become successful. Our Mission. County Employment Services provides help with job search, training options, retention and stabilization services to families and individuals approved for the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Clients are referred from the County Financial Assistance unit with most cases being mandated to participate, in order to receive their benefits. MRCI is the primary Employment Service Provider for...
What it reported doing in 2025
Fiscal intermediary/employer of record- mrci was one of the first agencies in Minnesota to offer employer of record/fiscal intermediary services as a fiscal support entity starting in 1998 with the robert wood-johnson foundations and the self-determination grant. Beginning in 2002 the program of personal care assistance (pca) was officially started, in 2025 over 45,000 minnesotan's utilize this program. In 2004, mrci became certified by the department of human services as a fiscal support entity providing the service of consumer directed community supports (cdcs). In 2010, mrci received certification following a readiness review for vd-hcbs services. In 2024, mrci offered veterans directed services within Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. In 2018, mrci was granted an rfp from the state of mn to continue providing fiscal employer agent services throughout the state as a financial management service (fms). The fms contract was renewed in 2023 between dhs and mrci.mrci also provides 245d licensed services including individualized home supports with and without training, respite, night supervision, host home and homemaker. Mrci was granted a contract with the department of human services (dhs) in 2021 to provide consultation services. Consultation services are similar to case management and support planning. Beginning in fall of 2024, dhs began the transition away from pca and consumer support grant (csg) to the new service of community first services and support (cfss). As a contracted fms provider starting in 2018, mrci was already positioned to be a cfss service provider. Mrci supported 3550 families were supported in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $61.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $167M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $234K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $788K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.