Northside Residents Redevelopment Council
Legal name: Northside Residents Redevelopment Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410975381
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Phone
- (612) 335-5924
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,221,703
- Expenses
- $1,308,651
- Assets
- $581,193
- Liabilities
- $23,121
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Martine Smaller (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Martine Smaller (Executive Director): $76,658 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 inform, engage and facilitate the residents of the Near North and Willard Hay neighborhoods in Minneapolis to be primary agents for improving the social, economic, environmental and livability conditions in their community.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, NRRC continued to advance our mission through meaningful community engagement and innovative programs. Our annual events, the Senior Luncheons, Spring Daze, the Summer Kick-Off Party, the National Night Out Celebration and our Annual Meeting were well attended attracting new residents who, we are proud to say, were invited by regular attendees. Our newest event, Fall Fest, held in October brought new individuals to the Trailhead Adventure Center, extending opportunities for Northsiders to enjoy Theodore Wirth Park and nature. In June, we introduced a new Youth Green Team model with 2 cohorts, the Seedlings and the OG's (Original Gardners). The Seedlings were middle schoolers who worked onsite at our Demonstration Site for Healthy Urban Living tending our vegetable gardens and chickens while receiving environmental education and beautifying the neighborhood. The OG's, the returning Green Team members, put their gardening skills to work by starting vegetable gardens in raised beds at their homes. Our partnership with the Community Safety Specialists assisted the monitoring of safety throughout Willard Hay and Near North strengthening the efficacy of block club captains. Our Healthy Heart contract with Hennepin County created networks of Black and Indigenous women ages 40+ who worked together to improve their heart health. Our paper newsletter, Northside Pride, was read and requested by Northsiders for its information and resources. Through our partnership with NRRC Financial, we maintained our support for first time homebuyers through counseling and expanded loan products. In October, we completed the installation of permeable pavers improving the storm water management at our Demonstration Site for Healthy Urban Living. The Residential Commercial Task Force reviewed over 20 residential and commercial proposals for Willard Hay and Near North with particular attention to the proposed Blue Line Extension and how it will affect Northsiders. We are grateful to all of the community partners who worked with us in 2025 to continually improve the quality of life for Willard Hay and Near North residents!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.8%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $191.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 28th 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 19 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.8% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.