Southern Mn Area Assembly
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411725401
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7635162165
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,497
- Expenses
- $67,878
- Assets
- $92,229
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- DOUG HALL (CHAIRPERSON)
- MATT BYE (ALTERNATE CH)
- WILLIAM WHITE (SECRETARY)
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
The southern Minnesota area assembly (smaa) is 1 of the 93 service areas in the united states and canada that makes up the volunteer service structure of alcoholics anonymous. Smaa serves the alcoholic anonymous (aa) members and groups located in southern Minnesota. Smaa's mission echoes that of aa as a whole: "alcoholics anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for aa membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for aa membership. We are self-supporting through our own voluntary contributions. Aa is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organzation or institution: does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor oposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety."
What it reported doing in 2024
The southern Minnesota area assembly (smaa) represents and serves over 800 groups located throughout southern Minnesota. During 2024 smaa held one significant workshop for its members. The trusted servant leadership training, a one-day workshop to provide training to members who have volunteered to hold a service position in either smaa, or in their local aa community or group. The southern Minnesota area assembly (smaa) serves many functions: 1) we elect a delegate to represent us at the national general service conference of alcoholics anonymous, held annually near aa's headquarters in New York, ny, as well as five other area officers that conduct and oversee the business of smaa; 2) smaa has 11 appointed committee chairpersons. We hold quarterly committee meetings to plan activities and share information with local service volunteers; 3) annually we hold 3 "assembly" hybrid- style meetings where officers and chairpersons report back to the aa groups we serve, and conduct smaa-wide business. We provide american sign language interpreters at these assembly meetings so our deaf and hard-of hearing members can fully participate; 4) we publish a quarterly newsletter wherein officers and committee chairs report on their activities, and in which our financial reports are published; 5) we provide service information and literature displays at unaffiliated conferences held across southern Minnesota each year. Smaa's main goal is to help alcoholics who are seeking a solution to their drinking problem. We do that through a variety of activities: 1) educating professionals about what aa can do, and what we can't do for alcoholics; 2) coordinating publication of public service announcements about how to find aa in southern Minnesota; 3) our "pink can plan" collects contributions from our members to purchase aa literature for persons in custody; 4) our "temporary contact program" receives requests from individuals being released from treatment facilities for a local aa contact to introduce them to aa meetings in their hom community; 5) we provide a similar service at Minnesota dept. Of corrections' transition fairs to help incarcerated people who are nearing their release to get connected with aa in their home community; 6) smaa endeavors to maintain a current database of aa meetings throughout southern Minnesota for the "meeting guide" mobile app which helps people locate aa meetings on their mobile devices. During 2024, we purchased and staffed aa information booths at the following events: the Minnesota association of resources for recovery and chemical health (marrch), as well as a public information booth for the full 12 days at the Minnesota state fair. During 2024, we sent one representative to each of the following conferences: the bridging the gap workshop to share best practices for aa outreach to individuals in treatment centers and correctional facilities; the national corrections conference, to keep us current with national trends in the corrections industry, which in turn helps our local aa service organizations and members work cooperatively with correctional facilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 55; 55th 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: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.1% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.