Sertoma Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237087145
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New Ulm, MN, USA
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,989
- Expenses
- $55,819
- Assets
- $67,400
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CODY THOMPSON (President)
- Scott Waldner (Past President)
People named in this filing
- CODY THOMPSON (President)
- SHANNON MAGERS (Sponsorship Chairperson)
- Steve Schneider (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assisting persons with hearing health issues and educating the public on the issues surrounding hearing health
What it reported doing in 2025
Santas Closet: Serve approximately 400 children annually from throughout Brown County whose families are receiving county social services and or financial aid and do not have the financial resources to provide reasonable gifts etc for their children at Christmas time; also contributed 1,000 to the Coats for Kids project which distributed coats to needy families at Christmas time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Multi-channel. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 45% for direct work, 32% for grants, and 24% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.