Seward Longfellow Restorative Justice
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832595501
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123936896
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime, Legal Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,002
- Expenses
- $69,145
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- REBECCA MILLER (Secretary)
- DONNA NORBECK (Chair)
- PETER HAEG (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Seward Longfellow Restorative Justice's mission is "to build community by providing the opportunity to repair harm by involving the victim, offender and community in solutions that promote healing, accountability and reconciliation." SLRJ also has a unique vision: empowering a community that embraces restorative justice as the preferred option when dealing with many criminal offenses and neighborhood conflicts, a community that feels connected and safe, confident in its ability to build and repair relationships. Founded by neighborhood volunteers in 2005, Seward Longfellow Restorative Justice (SLRJ) became incorporated as an independent non-profit in August 2019.
What it reported doing in 2024
DISSOLUTION In the Spring of 2024 the organization began to plan for the departure of the Executive Director who had served the organization for almost 16 years. The Board pursued various pathways including hiring additional staff, becoming a program of a mission-aligned organization, or transferring remaining assets to a long-time partner organization with the expectation that they would continue outreach and connection to the SLRJ service area. In anticipation of the transition, SLRJ opted out of all contract work with the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County and Minneapolis Police Department as of December 31, 2024A Memorandum of Understanding was developed and a plan for transition was affirmed with a partner organization.On June 9, 2025 the MN Attorney General received and accepted the Dissolution Paperwork.On June 30, 2025 the final payroll was paid for hours worked through June 15.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -360.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 19.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.