The Family Partnership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410693858
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127290340
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,047,121
- Expenses
- $9,320,103
- Assets
- $12,942,727
- Liabilities
- $462,382
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Emily Larson (President and CEO)
- Kathryn Briem (Former Interim President and CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Robert Pickering (CFO): $128,243 total reported compensation
- Emily Larson (President and CEO): $87,887 total reported compensation
- Kathryn Briem (Former Interim President and CEO): $33,840 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 Family Partnership's mission is building strong families, vital communities, and a better future for children. We work to clear the path to success for families experiencing deep poverty and trauma, often for generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Early Childhood Education: TFP offers high-quality, culturally responsive early childhood education and care as a key element of our 2GEN approach for improving the well-being of children and families. Our classrooms increase access to early education, with a focus on communities of color in order to address systematic disparities and create equitable communities where all families and children can thrive. In 2025, TFP's experienced early childhood educators delivered evidence-based curricula designed to expand children's literacy, language use, math and science knowledge, and executive functioning which prepared children for kindergarten and future success. Family workers provided support and case management services to preschool families to engage parents/caregivers with their children's learning and promote whole family well-being. Our North Minneapolis preschool closed at the end of March 2025, as part of preparing our North Minneapolis building for sale. It was purchased by an organization that plans to open a preschool at that location. Our Four Directions urban American Indian preschool operated year-round and continues to operate in 2026. In 2025, we served 241 children across all early childhood programs and 89% of children in our preschools graduated kindergarten ready. We maintained our NAEYC national accreditation and as well as our 4-star rating from Parent Aware, Minnesota's resource for identifying high quality early childhood care and education programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.