Minnesota Paralegal Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411329719
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6516332778
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,402
- Expenses
- $96,969
- Assets
- $207,672
- Liabilities
- $50,193
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERESA MASON-TIERNEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TERESA MASON-TIERNEY (PRESIDENT)
- PATTY MEAGHER (DIR OF POSIT)
- PATRICIA TRESELER (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mpa is a voluntary, non profit professional association composed of paralegals living or working in the state of Minnesota dedicated to fostering the growth and development of the paralegal profession.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization held the mpa annual convention, various meetings, continuing education sectionals, and social events, both virtually and in- person, increased sectional offerings and attendance, and increased on- demand cle recordings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.