The Open Door

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270415900
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Eagan, MN, USA
Phone
6516860787
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Banks, Pantries

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,253,085
Expenses
$13,740,765
Assets
$5,538,405
Liabilities
$1,807,271

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON VIANA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • KIM CHRISTIANSON (PRESIDENT)
  • DAN BURNS (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
  • STEPHANIE ANDREWS (PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON VIANA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $143,178 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 open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, Minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. The open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious food to over 23,000 people each month, including working families, seniors, and children.

What it reported doing in 2025

The open door is a hunger-relief organization which benefits low-income, food-insecure individuals and families who live in dakota county and surrounding areas. Through 2025 we accomplished: 1. Providing safe and reliable access to healthy, nutritionally dense food to more than 23,000 individuals each month.2. Facilitating weekly large-scale produce distributions serving as many as 4,400 people at a single distribution. 3. Delivering over 27,000 lunches to children throughout the summer.4. Helping food-shelf clients plant, grow, harvest and prepare their own fresh produce. Churches, schools and businesses provided more than 300 adoptable plots at 13 local garden sites.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: $31.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 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: 3.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.