Provision Community Restaurant
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825141466
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122080461
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,884
- Expenses
- $245,994
- Assets
- $177,526
- Liabilities
- $98,238
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Wienke (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Anna Wienke (Executive Director): $50,407 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Foster creative, community-based solutions to overcome food insecurity, isolation and hardships in the lives of our neighbors.
What it reported doing in 2021
Community restaurant (Someday Café): Before the global pandemic, Provision offered pay-as-you-can dinner and brunch four days a week. Now replaced by carry out, our give-as-you-can lunch offers a solution that addresses food insecurity by providing a meal regardless of ability to pay. When we are able, we will open up our indoor space once again in order to provide a warm and welcoming environment, and conversation. This operation, as well as our shelter meals are fueled by repurposing food and volunteer support to process those donations and prepare meals for our community. Our collaboration with Twin Cities Food Justice supported this in 2020, which allowed us to also help them to achieve their mission of reducing food waste and hunger by delivering the produce we use to create meals that we give out each day - linking those willing to help and those who are in need. Together we have a solution! Through our partnership, we repurposed over 24,000 pounds of food in 2020 and logged roughly 480 volunteer hours.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $209K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.