Mobile Action Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453063907
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Stillwater, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513983830
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Banks, Pantries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,907
- Expenses
- $64,474
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- PETER BOLSTORFF (BOARD CHAIR)
- CARY BOLSTORFF (SECRETARY)
- GEARY OLSON (DIRECTOR)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mobile action ministries was organized july 26, 2011, exclusively for charitable purposes. We are a Minnesota non-profit, 501c3 tax-exempt public charity. Our mission is to prepare and serve hot, nutritionally balanced meals to food insecure individuals using a licensed mobile kitchen. Being food insecure means that an individual does not always know where they will find their next meal.1 hunger in Minnesota has doubled in five years. One in ten minnesotans runs out of resources before the end of every month, missing a meal every other day. That's 100 million meals missed every year.2 as a community partner with hunger-free Minnesota, our goal is to increase the meal capacity for Minnesota shelters and emergency housing.3 peter and cary bolstorff, stillwater, founded the program under the umbrella of another non-profit organization in 2002. After construction of the first vehicle, the first meal was served in 2004. Partner locations include the dorothy day center, shobi's table and val
What it reported doing in 2016
Mobile action ministries was created to support the purchase of a new vehicle to grow the program in geographic reach, number of locations and meals served. The long-term vision is to operate the kitchen six days each week of the year with two service locations each day using all volunteer service teams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -281.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2016
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.