Minnesota County Engineers Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411463764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 2187847126
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $250,176
- Expenses
- $191,758
- Assets
- $228,831
- Liabilities
- $275
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEL ODENS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MEL ODENS (PRESIDENT): $1,200 total reported compensation
- LYNDON ROBJENT (VICE PRESIDE): $800 total reported compensation
- RYAN THILGES (SECRETARY): $800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To aid the counties of the state of Minnesota with and to provide professional county engineering services to further the advancement and improvement of the county engineering profession. To provide for the interchange and disseminating of helpful ideas and information relating to and concerning the engineering profession. To provide opportunities for developing effective and practical county engineering. To assist county engineering to be more useful, meaningful, and efficient to those whom it serves.
What it reported doing in 2024
To aid the counties of the state of Minnesota with and to provide professional county engineering services to further the advancement and improvement of the county engineering profession.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $1K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.