Minnesota Vikings Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814465275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Eagan, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9528286500
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,906,177
- Expenses
- $1,571,808
- Assets
- $6,108,049
- Liabilities
- $491,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRETT TABER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW MILLER (CO-VICE CHAIR AND DIRECTOR)
- ELANA WILF TANZMAN (DIRECTOR AND CO-CHAIR)
- HALLE WILF OSHINSKY (DIRECTOR AND CO-CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Minnesota vikings foundation will advance the well-being of youth through engaging health and education initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Minnesota vikings foundation advances the well-being of youth through engaging health and education initiatives. Vikings table is a food truck program with the mission of serving healthy meals and nutrition education to youth across the greater twin cities area. Nutritious meals are distributed in conjunction with other local nonprofits to youth and families in need. The vikings table seeks to provide nutrition information/education to youth across the twin cities area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.3%; rating input score 88; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.89; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.