Minnesota Landmarks Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237069422
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512923231
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,843,182
- Expenses
- $2,734,519
- Assets
- $8,916,480
- Liabilities
- $445,720
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- AMY MINO (EXECUTIVE DI): $166,795 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minnesota landmarks preserves and manages landmark center as a dynamic, historic cultural center. It initiates programs and partnerships that celebrate the cultural diversity and collective history of the community and provides a central gathering place for organizations and activities that enhance the quality of life in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Minnesota landmarks promotes landmark center as a year-round cultural center for the community; develops, facilitates and presents an annual slate of nearly 250 free or low-cost cultural programs and history tours for diverse audiences of all ages. Its signature arts, history and civic programs include the "sundays at landmark" family series, "urban expedition" family series, the holiday bazaar, "uncle sam worked here" history and law programs, ballet tuesday, summer walking tours and many other special art exhibitions and annual cultural programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 3.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.26; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 29 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.