The Dwelling Place
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411897793
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Columbia Heights, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512210405
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,528,874
- Expenses
- $1,732,554
- Assets
- $4,134,260
- Liabilities
- $141,217
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenna Perez (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Jenna Perez (Executive Director): $121,445 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.
What it reported doing in 2025
Transitional Housing - The Organization operates ten single-family homes that provide transitional housing for women and children fleeing domestic abuse. Residents typically remain in the program for two years while they recover from trauma and develop the skills necessary to achieve independent housing, sustainable income, and lives free from abuse. The homes are located in residential neighborhoods, and their locations are kept confidential to protect the safety of the women and children served. The properties include 40 bedrooms and can accommodate up to 80 individuals. The homes are furnished, well maintained, and equipped with security systems. In 2025, the Organization housed and served 24 women and 34 children, ranging in age from 8 months to 17 years. A total of 58 women and children received 12,645 nights of safe housing. The Organization also received 660 calls for assistance involving 589 children affected by domestic abuse. Women who completed the program successfully separated from abusive relationships.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.7%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 26th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 50.9%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.7% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.