Souris Basin Planning Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450321353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Minot, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7018396641
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,064,156
- Expenses
- $1,148,399
- Assets
- $6,071,998
- Liabilities
- $243,486
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRISELDA HERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BRISELDA HERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $115,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Regional planning and development; be responsive to the needs of local governments and other development interests that further the continued progress of the community and economic development within the region.
What it reported doing in 2024
Comprehensive regional planning and grant administration. Administration grants consist of projects for planning, public facility improvements, infrastructure, low income housing rehabilitation and other capital improvements. Providing resources and technical assistance through grant writing and strategic planning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.7%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- 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: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.29; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.7% of revenue deployed · 81.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $935K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.