Southside Harm Reduction Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824602523
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6126159725
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,298,715
- Expenses
- $2,063,234
- Assets
- $3,607,505
- Liabilities
- $874,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jack Martin (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Arielle Edelman McHenry (Chairman)
- Jenny Bjorgo (Director)
- Anne Siegler (Chairman)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote the health and rights of people who use drugs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Southside Harm Reduction Services (SHRS) is a Minnesota non-profit organization founded in 2017. SHRS is a grassroots, comprehensive health program primarily serving communities in South Minneapolis. The mission is to promote the health and wellbeing of community members facing substance use challenges. Prevention and needle exchange programming are evidenced-based health interventions.Peer-reviewed data shows that people who engage with these services are more likely to access health care, reduce incidence of infectious disease, get access to substance use disorder treatments, and ultimately reduce or cease their substance use. SHRS also supports people to connect with treatment, housing, food, and other resources people choose, centering individual autonomy. SHRS core programming includes: distributing health education and safety supplies via street outreach; offer on-demand mobile safety supply deliveries; low barrier drop in center; distribution of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and overdose prevention education; HIV testing; and, linkage to services that provide non-discriminatory care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Board meeting minutes documented not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.