Wayside House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
410873104
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
St Paul, MN, USA
Phone
9529265626
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,093,199
Expenses
$8,334,935
Assets
$4,609,533
Liabilities
$3,548,506

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LORI HOEFENER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • SUWANA KIRKLAND (PRESIDENT)
  • SARAH MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • AMY MORGAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • AMY MORGAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $203,958 total reported compensation
  • NWAY LINN (CHIEF CLINICAL OFFICER): $158,808 total reported compensation
  • ANDREA VASQUEZ (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (OUTGOING)): $94,364 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

What it reported doing in 2024

Family treatment center (ftc) maintains the family unit by allowing mothers to enter treatment pregnant or along with their children (age 11 or younger) to avoid the long term effects of separation. Many women are involved in the child protection system and are working towards reunification or enter treatment while pregnant and deliver their baby while in our care. Women receive substance use treatment integrated with reunification advocacy and parenting education and support, with the goal of promoting understanding of how addiction contributes to the adverse childhood experiences (aces) of their children, building healthy relationship skills and attachment, achieving stability in the community, and ultimately breaking the multi-generational transmission of risk. Every woman and her child(ren) works with a family services counselor and case manager in addition to licensed alcohol and drug couselors and a mental health therapist experienced in providing child and family mental health services. Additional services include peer recovery specialists, medication assisted treatment (mat), nursing, psychiatry, and dedicated children's case management. Children are linked with high quality child care, early education, developmental assessment, well child and dental services, and school support. Families with children age 5 or under may enroll in family home visiting with in-home parenting support for up to two years post-treatment. Location: minneapolis, mn. In 2024, 91 women accompanied by 89 children received family treatment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.

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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $6.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 16 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $478K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.