Minnesota Council 5

Legal name: MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
201608505
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2007
Location
South St Paul, MN, USA
Phone
6514504990
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Labor Unions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,589,839
Expenses
$27,027,351
Assets
$16,388,094
Liabilities
$10,048,751

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Eric Hesse (President)
  • Latonya Reeves (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Bart Andersen (C5 Exec Director): $219,777 total reported compensation
  • Nicole Ayres (C5 Finance Director): $180,595 total reported compensation
  • Krist Hendlel (C5 Business Director): $179,731 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dignity. Opportunity. Freedom. For all.

What it reported doing in 2025

FIELD SERVICES The field services department continues to engage Locals in AFSCME STRONG plans to foster local empowerment and to build local union membership within our established 125 locals and engaging with 43,338 individuals within our locals, with 31,549 logged assesments. In 2025 the Council signed 4,866 new members, 410 PEOPLE members, with 364 signing for PEOPLE MVP. We had 403 drop requests. The Council also reimplemented the BECK process which has resuilted in hundreds of AFPs and dozens of new members.Field Reps continue to provided training, to negotiate contracts and to assist with grievances and external organizing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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: 70
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $220K · 34 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 31 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.