Minnesota Future Problem Solving Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411731735
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brownsville, MN, USA
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,454
- Expenses
- $26,552
- Assets
- $15,319
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cynthia Allen (Past-President)
- Nathan Duffy (Past President)
- Spencer Kotys (President Elect)
- Christopher Meng (President)
- Cheryl Whitesitt (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Allen (Past-President)
- Candy Bartol (Director)
- Marcy Byrnes (Director)
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
Teach children critical thinking and decision making skills.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children parents teachers and coordinators were trained in a problem solving process and given skills to evaluate the effectiveness of their work. There were numerous participants from many Minnesota schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.