MN8
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863702657
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513871065
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,438,794
- Expenses
- $854,135
- Assets
- $944,910
- Liabilities
- $22,678
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONTHA CHUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MONTHA CHUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $168,123 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As we work to free our southeast asian communities, we move with the understanding that the path to liberation must be holistic and address intersectional oppression. We plant and nourish seeds of action that sprout into both short-term and long-term change answering immediate needs through direct services and dismantling institutional oppression through larger initiatives (such as education and policy). Our vision is for sustainable, deep-rooted change that allows southeast asian communities to thrive independently with abundant access to resources and support.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct support: we use direct support as part of our 4 building blocks for liberation by supporting community members in requesting forms and records for their legal cases, housing a legal kiosk for community members to access virtual court appointments and pro bono / low bono legal help, accompanying community members to their ice check-ins, hosting know your rights trainings and legal clinics to community members, supporting community members who have been previously deported to re-examine their case and identify options for returning to the u.s., and providing financial assistance and cultural food for southeast asian community members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $77.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $667K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $168K · 4 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.