Twin Cities Rise
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411761118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123380295
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,439,049
- Expenses
- $5,134,765
- Assets
- $7,377,368
- Liabilities
- $998,254
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alice Emma Corrie (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Alice Emma Corrie (President/CEO): $218,544 total reported compensation
- Alexandria Merritt (VP of Programs): $173,558 total reported compensation
- Bonnie Melville (VP of Business Operations): $62,572 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Twin Cities R! SE transforms the lives of participants overcoming socio-economic hurdles - including unemployment, underemployment, or justice involvementthrough Personal Empowerment, career training, and meaningful employment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Twin Cities R! SE's Workforce Development serves resilient participants overcoming significant employment hurdles through an evidence informed model combining workforce training, transformational Personal Empowerment, individualized coaching, employer connections, and post placement support. Participants begin in an intensive 8 week cohort integrating career readiness, emotional intelligence, and key workplace skills like problem-solving. Coaching continues for a year to support job retention. In FY2025 the program served 650 participants, a 19% increase, and achieved a record 210 employment outcomes, a 36% rise.During FY25, Twin Cities R! SE launched a pilot of its Empowered Re-Entry Training (ERT) program, a ten-week workforce and personal development initiative delivered inside correctional facilities for individuals preparing to return to the community. The program combines our Personal Empowerment, career readiness, and employment pathway planning targeting fair chance employers. The pilot cohort at the Shakopee Women's Correctional Facility served 13 women and achieved a 92% completion rate, with participants reporting increased self-esteem, confidence, personal growth, and readiness for reintegration into the workforce.
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 87% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th 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: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $219K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.