Power of People Leadership Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261209294
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Phone
7635355711
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,830,310
Expenses
$2,056,022
Assets
$689,839
Liabilities
$946,778

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR VERNA CORNELIA PRICE (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR VERNA CORNELIA PRICE (PRESIDENT): $213,107 total reported compensation
  • BROTHER SHANE PRICE (DIRECTOR): $183,347 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The power of people leadership institute is a non profit committed to engaging youth and adults in research based interactive learning experiences that challenge, inspire, and inform them to overcome their obstacles and find success in every area of life through personal power and leadership.

What it reported doing in 2024

Girls in action tm, now renamed girls taking action (gta) was founded in 2005 by dr. Verna cornelia price to address the rise in violent, destructive, and delinquent behavior being exhibited by the female students at minneapolis north high school. Since then, girls in action has impacted more than 5,000 girls in minneapolis, st paul, chaska, fridley, robbinsdale, and brooklyn center, as well as in detroit, chicago, atlanta, guatemala, and kenya. Our mission for girls taking action is to motivate, mentor, empower, engage, and educate girls to succeed in school and life. Through weekly mentoring groups we engage girls in high school and middle school in academics and positive leadership. The re-planning program tm, founded and directected by brother shane price in 2006, is a program of the power of people leadership institute. Since our founding, the re-planting program (p.o.p) has worked with over 5,000 offenders in the department of corrections with high risk designations to reduce criminal thinking and behavior, increase reintegration, increase stability in the community, and increase access to employment, housing, system navigation, leadership development, and mental and chemical health services. The boys of hope program tm is a weekly program designed for boys in grades 6-12. The project combines a unique, innovative and patented curriculum, the power of people personal people leadership institute.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 72% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.05 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: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -12.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.37; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $213K · 5 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.