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CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS

EIN 81-4359535 EDINA, MN

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Revenue 2025
$194,507
Expenses 2025
$125,591

Program services were 98.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
1200
Street
7455 FRANCE AVE SO 131

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

Visit and support people detained by ICE in Minnesota.

  • We made deposits to the commissary accounts of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily in Minnesota county jails, so they could call their families and/or purchase supplemental food or hygiene items.The total number of people served in 2025 was about 948.

    Expenses $77,443

  • We provided Dignity backpacks for 285 of the 948 people served. They are filled with the clothing requested by people being deported by ICE, and also include hygiene and other items, thus helping them arrive in their birth countries with dignity.

    Expenses $40,192

  • "Safe release and accompaniment" program expenses. We picked up 8 people who were released from ICE custody and provided a Dignity backpack, food and/or a bus ticket so they could arrive safely at their destinations in the U.S.

    Expenses $1,671

  • Other program services: books, and occasionally puzzles and games, were sent to people detained by ICE in Minnesota.

    Expenses $4,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Bob Tift

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Carolyn Smith

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Marsha Benshoof

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Steve Kraemer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Ben Gleekel

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Harry Mueller

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

  • Abdulkadir Abdi

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.12

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $194,507
    Expenses
    $125,591
    Contributions
    $194,507
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $88,186
    Expenses
    $93,944
    Contributions
    $88,186
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Jane Scullin
Mailing address
7455 France Ave So 131Edina MN 55435
Website
www.conversationswithfriendsMN.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.