Outfront Minnesota
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411892897
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128220127
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lesbian, Gay Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,377
- Expenses
- $118,858
- Assets
- $459,178
- Liabilities
- $194,026
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KAT ROHN (EXECUTIVE DI): $140,529 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to make our state a place where all people are valued, we engage in community education, organizing, anti-violence and legal services and policy advocacy. The overall goals of our work are to: (1) strengthen teh movement for lgbtq equity; (2) develop leaders who can organize others to work toward lgbtq liberation; (3) win over the hearts and minds of minnesotans.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through our legislative organizing work, we build coalitions of concerned parents, students, healthcare providers, faith leaders and professional associations to advocate against abusive practices such as conversion therapy. We mobilize thousands of supporters to take action against these kinds of assaults on lgbtq rights. This organizing work helps build our base in key communities around the state to act when harmful legislation is proposed. Through our youth, college, trans, policy and faith leadership teams, we worked to pass gender inclusion policies through local school boards and worked on a state lelvel to enact policies to enact lgbtq equity. This work includes organizing thousands of minnesotans to work for lgbtq inclusion and equity in their communites. Overall, outfront staff and leaders trained over 7000 people on lgbtq inclusion and advocacy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $84.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.86; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 118.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.9% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.