Outfront Minnesota Community Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363550489
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6128220127
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,667,004
- Expenses
- $1,780,424
- Assets
- $2,859,388
- Liabilities
- $328,084
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 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 the 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
Outfront Minnesota's anti-violence program provided crisis intervention servcies, legal assistance and advocacy services to over 290 survivors of anti-lgbtq bias/hate violence, relationship abuse, and sexual assault. Our anti-violence program staff held 150 trainings on advancing lgbtq inclusion within their workplace and services. Outfront Minnesota works to make our schools safe and affirming for lgbtq students and provide leadership support and opportunities for youth statewide. Our youth and schools program is led by our youth leadership council comprised of 6 youth from around the state who meet twice a month. They help provide guidance for our work with the gender sexuality alliances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.4%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 43.6%; rating input score 44; 14th 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; 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: 51.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.4% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.