Semper Fi Flo Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
834523407
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Chanhassen, MN, USA
Phone
6122470862
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$92,989
Expenses
$90,788
Assets
$113,117
Liabilities
$18,494

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Molly Ambrose (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Molly Ambrose (Executive Director): $32,000 total reported compensation
  • Holly Straub (Treasurer): $6,348 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Semper Fi Flo mission is to work with local communities to support and enrich the lives of Military individuals and families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Cumulative since inception, the organization adopted 142 military families experiencing significant financial and/or emotional difficulties for the holidays. We are on our second round of sponsoring all eight veteran homes in Minnesota with goods and financial donations. We shipped 1019 wcare packages during the 2025 calendar year to deployed military worldwide bringing our cumulative total number of care packages shiped to over 7,000.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 9.2%; rating input score 9; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.