Northern Pines of Minnesota
Legal name: Northern Pines of Minnesota Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237350979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lakeville, MN, United States
- Phone
- 612-861-5100
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,044,530
- Expenses
- $1,074,387
- Assets
- $869,606
- Liabilities
- $57,402
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Julie Jaderston (Executive Director)
- Dean Jaderston (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Julie Jaderston (Executive Director): $59,508 total reported compensation
- Dean Jaderston (Executive Director): $7,560 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Vacation with a Purpose. Susan and her husband Steve have been married over 45 years, with four wonderful children (Matthew & Jaycee, Bryan & Danielle, Kristin & Drew, Emily & Lonnie) and 8 fantastic grandchildren who all live near by. She does the office work for her husband’s home remodeling business. Susan has been involved in various leadership roles in church. Their family has made numerous mission trips to Mexico, and have close cross-cultural friends both in the US and in Mexico. Susan is blessed to be able to minister to women of all ages helping provide spiritual and emotional support. Northern Pines has been a great blessing to Susan and Steve and the entire family as their children have gone through all t.
What it reported doing in 2024
Northern Pines provided activities and learning for over four generations of campers in 2025. 1,528 conferees and staff gathered for 2 weeks at a Green Lake, WI conference center.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 97.1% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.