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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA.

Totals

Total revenue
$952,363
Total expenses
$1,041,381
Contributions and grants received
$669,965
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$7,255
Investment income
$38,993
Other revenue
$236,150
Total assets, end of year
$1,229,961
Total liabilities, end of year
$43,909
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,186,052
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$706,798
Management and general expenses
$232,051
Fundraising expenses
$102,532
Program service expenses (Part III)
$706,798

Program services were 67.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $383,511

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $286,454

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE FEES

    total $7,255 · related or exempt $7,255

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $38,993 · excluded $38,993

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $264,433

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $30,054

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $234,379 · excluded $234,379

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $1,771 · unrelated business $1,771

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,771

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $640,420 · program services $435,466 · management and general $141,560 · fundraising $63,394

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $198,785 · program services $135,074 · management and general $44,031 · fundraising $19,680

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $15,401 · program services $10,573 · management and general $3,307 · fundraising $1,521

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $58,204 · program services $39,570 · management and general $12,872 · fundraising $5,762

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $42,639 · program services $24,645 · management and general $14,647 · fundraising $3,347

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,840 · program services $2,043 · management and general $520 · fundraising $277

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $17,926 · program services $12,895 · management and general $3,280 · fundraising $1,751

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $15,693 · program services $11,289 · management and general $2,871 · fundraising $1,533

  • 17 · Travel

    total $6,444 · program services $4,636 · management and general $1,178 · fundraising $630

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $8,680 · program services $6,244 · management and general $1,588 · fundraising $848

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $23,222 · program services $16,704 · management and general $4,249 · fundraising $2,269

  • 24a · Other expenses: FEES/CHARGES

    total $7,248 · program services $5,214 · management and general $1,326 · fundraising $708

  • 24b · Other expenses: PRINTING AND COPYING

    total $2,537 · program services $1,825 · management and general $464 · fundraising $248

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $480 · fundraising $480

  • 24d · Other expenses: POSTAGE AND MESSENGER

    total $465 · program services $335 · management and general $85 · fundraising $45

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $397 · program services $285 · management and general $73 · fundraising $39

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $25,156 · end of year $33,374

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,126,399 · end of year $1,064,805

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $103,815 · end of year $73,333

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $22,365 · end of year $15,521

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $95,016

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $80,981

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $8,268 · end of year $14,035

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $43,160 · end of year $28,893

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $9,758 · end of year $13,875

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $44,335 · end of year $30,034

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,275,070 · end of year $1,186,052

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA PROMOTES AND PROTECTS THE LEGAL RIGHTS AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH THROUGH LEGAL ADVOCACY, EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, AND POLICY REFORM.

  • CLC SERVED 402 CLIENTS IN 2025 AND SAW 119 CASES TO COMPLETION. OF THESE YOUTH, 51% (204) ARE FEMALE, 49% (198) ARE MALE; 65% (263) OF THE CASES ARE WITHIN RAMSEY COUNTY, 34% (138) ARE IN HENNEPIN COUNTY; 1% IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. ALL CLC CLIENTS ARE YOUNG PEOPLE IN FOSTER CARE IN MN, MOSTLY BETWEEN AGES 10-21. CLC SERVES A HIGH MINORITY POPULATION, MANY OF WHOM IDENTIFY AS MORE THAN ONE RACE. SPECIFICALLY, 152 (38%) ARE BLACK/AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 130 (32%) ARE TWO OR MORE RACES, 30 (8%) ARE ASIAN, 8 (2%) ARE HISPANIC-LATINO, 7 (2%) ARE NATIVE AMERICAN BUT DO NOT QUALIFY FOR ICWA, 19 (5%) ARE ICWA ELIGIBLE, AND 56 (14%) ARE WHITE. 74% OF CLIENTS WERE MEMBERS OF A SIBLING GROUP. OF THE 402 CASES 55% CASES WERE ASSIGNED IN HOUSE TO STAFF ATTORNEYS AND 45% OF THE CASES WERE ASSIGNED TO VOLUNTEER ATTORNEYS. 55% OF CLC CLIENTS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR STUDIES ON TIME, WITH 7% OF THOSE STUDENTS PLANNING TO ENROLL IN COLLEGE THIS FALL. IN CONTRAST, 35% OF SENIOR CLIENTS WERE STILL STRIVING TO EARN THEIR DIPLOMA. WHILE THESE FIGURES REFLECT A DECREASE COMPARED TO OUR EARLIER GRADUATION RATES, THEY ALIGN WITH THE OVERALL DECLINE IN GRADUATION RATES OBSERVED STATEWIDE FOR FOSTER STUDENTS.IN 2025, CLC STAFF SERVED ON, OR PARTICIPATE IN, OVER 14 EXTERNAL COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING THE MN SUPREME COURT COUNCIL ON CHILD PROTECTION, CHILDREN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE, STATEWIDE CJI ADVISORY COMMITTEE, STATEWIDE CJI MENTAL HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEE, MIFPA PHASE II, CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT TASK FORCE, HENNEPIN AND RAMSEY COUNTY CHILDREN'S JUSTICE INITIATIVE GROUPS, MN RULES OF JUVENILE PROTECTION PROCEDURE COMMITTEE, STATE BOARD OF APPELLATE COUNSEL AND TRAINING, AND THE MSBA AND ABA CHILDREN AND LAW SECTIONS.

    Expenses $706,798 · Revenue $7,255

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Wendy Watson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Cathy Wassberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Caroline Moos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jack Graves

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Michael Ewald

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Andrew Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jennifer Dukart

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Desiree McDowell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • William Hefner

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Amy Conway

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Lisa Bayley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Christine Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Mike Debois

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Nicole Narotzky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Melissa Raphan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Eric Chad

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Mark Schneebeck

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Joshua Natzel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Joe Cassioppi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Jamie Kurtz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Erin Sindberg Porter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Dustin Schmieg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Holley Horrell

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Lauren Pockl

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Rachel Barrett

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Leah Kippola-Friske

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Andrew Baese

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Deandra Walker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Bethany Kinsella

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related
  • Susan Dioury

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $137,763
    From this org
    $133,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,013
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
24 August 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202622449349300922

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