Minnesota Engagement on Shelter and Housing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412006561
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127501474
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,048,536
- Expenses
- $826,500
- Assets
- $822,933
- Liabilities
- $34,816
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELINA MORGAN (PRESIDENT)
- ANGELA GAUTHIER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICHELLE SHANNON (TREASURER): $29,428 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minnesota engagement on shelter and housing's mission is to foster statewide partnerships and strengthen capacity to end homelessness. Mesh helps regions, communities, and organizations develop strategic and customized solutions for ending homelessness, based on national best practices and almost twenty years of learning from our work with dozens of partners. To our work at entry level of a community's efforts to end homelessness, mesh brings its prized expertise, broad network, and informed and objective perspective. We believe that if a solution doesn't work for your community or your organization, then it isn't going to work for your neighbors experiencing homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
All other achievementsworking with communities to navigate the complexities of ending homelessness.
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 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $754K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.