T.O.U.C.H Outreach
Legal name: Touch Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853600586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- Phone
- 612-367-4414
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,351,269
- Expenses
- $1,561,928
- Assets
- $378,790
- Liabilities
- $63,883
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MUHAMMAD ABDUL AHAD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MUHAMMAD ABDUL AHAD (CEO): $246,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teaching Our Urban Communities Hope
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o.in 2024, touch outreach advanced its mission to reduce community violence and support healing in minneapolis through targeted intervention, prevention, and outreach services. The program engaged directly with individuals at high risk of involvement in violence, built trusted community relationships, and collaborated with partners to create safer neighborhoods. Direct intervention: provided violence interruption and crisis response services to over 600 individuals, including immediate support to those affected by gun violence and other community conflicts. Community outreach: conducted 300 street outreach shifts and community engagement events, building connections in neighborhoods most impacted by violence. Outreach workers provided conflict mediation, resource referrals, and mentorship to residents. Support services: assisted 300 clients in accessing housing, employment opportunities, mental health services, and other wraparound support to reduce risk factors associated with violence.touch outreach remains committed to a public health approach to violence prevention, centering community voice, trauma-informed care, and restorative practices to build safer and stronger communities in minneapolis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 54.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -45% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $246K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.