North Star Prosperity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862157002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128873033
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,273
- Expenses
- $311,837
- Assets
- $373,918
- Liabilities
- $16,280
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE DEAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL JUNE 2025)
- CASSANDRA ROHLIK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MIKE DEAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR UNTIL JUNE 2025)
- CASSANDRA ROHLIK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BRYNN HAUSZ (BOARD 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Expand opportunities and ensure minnesotans have the opportunity to live a happy & productive life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Civic education and participation program - north star prosperity is focused on educating minnesotans about economic issues that impact them, including public education, child care, college affordability, health care, family leave, and fair taxation. Nsp's civic education and participation campaign is aimed at achieving the larger goal of addressing structural issues limiting opportunity and economic growth. This program focused on increasing civic participation in historically underrepresented communities and ensuring that minnesotans understand and participate in all levels of government, including at the state legislative level, which in part due to newly drawn district lines, is commonly misunderstood and overlooked. North star prosperity aims to connect minnesotans with information regarding policy issues and to ensure that minnesotans can engage in the process that affects working people and the solutions that could improve their lives. North star prosperity uses various outreach efforts to engage with our audience and to conduct education on core issues and the civic process in which these issues may be addressed, including on our website, digital ads, mail, and canvassing where the public can learn about their newly drawn district lines.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3,262.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -55.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $233K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.