Ujamaa Place
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271216065
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6515288006
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,155,443
- Expenses
- $3,565,268
- Assets
- $8,456,047
- Liabilities
- $2,024,977
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD COFFEY (CEO)
- MICHAEL BELTON (FORMER CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR KALENA PETERSON (COO): $153,297 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER MANOR (FORMER CFO): $152,824 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL BELTON (FORMER CEO): $150,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ujamaa place provides holistic transformation opportunities for young black men experiencing inequity at the intersection of race and poverty and helps them achieve brotherhood, stability, and personal success.
What it reported doing in 2025
The ujamaa place program provides a comprehensive approach that offers young men a pathway to success through high context coaching plus education and training in empowerment skills, basic job skills & job search, ged, spirituality, african american culture, and life skills. Key indicators of success: ujamaa place graduates have completed their ged, are using empowerment skills in their daily lives, not reoffending, are drug gree, have stable housing, holding a steady job, and are positively connected to their families and children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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 - 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 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: 14.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $101K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.