Walking with a Purpose Mn

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474192708
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Maplewood, MN, USA
Phone
7013715540
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Homeless Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$39,444
Expenses
$55,852
Assets
$35,628

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TODD FESKE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TODD FESKE (PRESIDENT)
  • ANGIE GISLASON (VICE PRESIDE)
  • DAN MATHEWS (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To help meet the immediate needs of people who live outdoors without safe and secure housing, while working to radically transform the paradigm of chronic homelessness.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our staff and volunteers visit the homeless camps each week to provide the services necessary for our clients to be able to live outdoors and check on them. Volunteers assist in sorting donated items, putting together food bags, driving buses and serving clients. We provide clothing, camping gear, food, health and hygiene products, and social services referral materials, as needed, to approximately 275 clients at 10 homeless camps per month. Our outreach helps establish trust with our clients so when they need additional services including housing, they trust our recommendations. We partner with settled, another nonprofit, to help move some of our clients from living outdoors into tiny homes. We have successfully worked with a large number of volunteers this past year. The number of volunteers is on average 24 people on a regular basis. We also get groups that come together to volunteer, these groups are from other organizations, schools, churches, colleges.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 58

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -41.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -74% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -37.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.