MN Prevention & Recovery Alliance LLC

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
873423771
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
6122597785
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Prevention Only

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,673,983
Expenses
$2,962,058
Assets
$482,470
Liabilities
$1,333,164

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gary Parker (President)
  • Tracee Anderson (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mary Brown (Secretary): $189,272 total reported compensation
  • Saul Selby (Former Treasurer): $175,112 total reported compensation
  • Tracee Anderson (Executive Director): $109,668 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to come alongside Minnesota youth and adults facing the impact of substance use and related mental health issues, and to provide resources that educate, engage, and empower a life of recovery.

What it reported doing in 2025

Minnesota Prevention & Recovery Alliance (MnPRA) is a Recovery Community Organization (RCO) dedicated to education, advocacy, and peer recovery support services. As a trusted, community-based organization, MnPRA works across Minnesota to prevent substance use, reduce stigma, and support individuals and families affected by substance use disorders.(Continued on Schedule O)Key Outcomes in 2025: * Reached and educated over 20,000 youth on the risks and consequences of substance misuse through in-school and community-based prevention presentations. * Provided peer recovery support services to 1,306 unique individuals, including one-on-one coaching, recovery planning, and connection to housing, employment, and health services. * Held 10 community events through our DFC Coalitions (BLADE - Crow Wing County, and OPUS - Ramsey County) educating the community on substance use awareness and connection to resources, including 4 successful Drug Take Back Day events collecting over 500lbs of unused and unwanted medication and sharps.Program Objectives: * Promote healthy attitudes toward substance use: Students who participate in our prevention programming are up to 5 times less likely to initiate substance use, according to post-presentation surveys and feedback. * Expand access to treatment services: In 2025, MnPRA made an estimated 202 direct referrals to treatment providers, helping individuals navigate barriers and engage in services appropriate to their recovery stage. * Reduce relapse and overdose risk: Our peer support model emphasizes long-term engagement, accountability, and recovery maintenance, contributing to a measurable decrease in crisis events among the individuals we serve.MnPRA continues to serve as a statewide leader in substance use prevention and recovery, leveraging lived experience, professional expertise, and community partnerships to drive positive outcomes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 75% 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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 49
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 11th 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: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.76; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 246.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $189K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.