Northland Christian Counseling Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450430824
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Grand Forks, ND, US
- Phone
- 701.795.8550
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Mental Health Association
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,982,134
- Expenses
- $1,805,991
- Assets
- $1,783,723
- Liabilities
- $409,842
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON WOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHEN SEAY (CLINICIAN / FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON WOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $230,901 total reported compensation
- THERESA KNUDSON (CLINICIAN): $208,586 total reported compensation
- THOMAS SOLEM (CLINICIAN / COO): $200,850 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To offer a ministry which aids in the development of each individual's potential: emotionally, physically, socially, intellectually, and spiritually. This endeavor includes counseling and educational services based on the Word of God. Northland Christian Counseling Center provides DUI Evaluations and self-referred evaluations. At the end of the evaluation, you will be given a review of the assessment and recommendations based on the severity of issues. Outpatient Addiction Treatment-**Adult Only This service is for individuals who need a lower level of outpatient service. This service usually totals four hours a week which includes three hours of group one day a week and one weekly individual session.
What it reported doing in 2025
To offer a ministry which AIDS in the development of each individuals potential: emotionally, physically, socially, intellectually, and spiritually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.