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NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES

EIN 45-0550557 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Revenue 2024
$4,050,926
Expenses 2024
$3,886,669

Program services were 76.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I40
Classification
1000
Street
2620 MINNEHAHA AVE

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 · 2024

Mission

BETTER FUTURES FUELS A MAN'S DESIRE TO TURN HIS LIFE AROUND AND WALK A NEW PATH TOWARD BETTER HEALTH AND SUCCESS. IT ALSO AIMS TO CHANGE THE COSTLY PRACTICES THAT PRODUCE POOR RESULTS AND PERPETUATE CYCLES OF DEPENDENCY.

  • OUR INTEGRATED CARE TEAM (ICT) UNDERSTANDS REINTEGRATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR PARTICIPANT SUCCESS. WE STRIVE TO BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITIES BY WALKING ALONGSIDE PARTICIPANTS TO HELP IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELLNESS, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, AND COMMUNITY/FAMILY REUNIFICATION. OUR MENTORSHIP AND COACHING MODEL IS CENTERED AROUND A PARTICIPANT'S INDIVIDUALIZE PROSPERITY PLAN. SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2007, BETTER FUTURES MN (BFM) HAS SERVED OVER 1,300 MEN OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS WITH UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND NEEDS. THE POPULATION WE SERVE IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST DUE TO THE STIGMA OF HAVING A CRIMINAL RECORD. WE EMBRACE THESE MEN AND HELP THEM FIND A BETTER PATH FORWARD. ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC POVERTY AND STRUCTURAL RACISM AND PROMOTING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION IS WOVEN INTO EVERY ASPECT OF OUR ORGANIZATIONBY PROVIDING ACCESS TO TRAINING, ON THE JOB TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT, PHYSICAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE, AND A VIBRANT, SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY FOR AT-RISK BLACK MEN, BFM HOPES TO PRODUCE BENEFICIAL LONG-TERM OUTCOMES NOT ONLY FOR THE MEN, BUT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AS WELL. THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE DIVISION OF BFM LEADS ALL TRAININGS, CERTIFICATION, ON-THE JOB-TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR THE MEN WE SERVE. BFM IS VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT CELEBRATING GROWTH AS MEN ACHIEVE GOALS, COMPLETE CERTIFICATIONS, AND TRAININGS, AND DEMONSTRATE CONSISTENCY AND DEDICATION AT WORK. THE MEN ALSO ENGAGE IN COMMUNITY MEETINGS TWICE A WEEK, WHERE THEY BOND WITH OTHER MEN, DISCUSS ISSUES THEY MIGHT BE FACING AND LEARN FROM GUEST SPEAKERS WHO HELP FACILITATE GROWTH, HEALING, AND SUPPORT.

    Expenses $2,987,530 · Revenue $502,999

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CHARLES BRADLEY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SIMON SHANNON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER MCCANTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT MURRAY

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIUS BARNES

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PJ HUBBARD

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $167,271
    From this org
    $160,726
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,545
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,726
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,005
    Nontaxable benefits
    $540
    Filer's total
    $167,271

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,050,926
    Expenses
    $3,886,669
    Contributions
    $1,764,355
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,462,235
    Expenses
    $3,578,619
    Contributions
    $2,272,049
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,639,604
    Expenses
    $4,302,593
    Contributions
    $1,978,556
    Grants paid
    $167,664

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,722,880
    Expenses
    $4,636,146
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,342,357

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,716,983
    Expenses
    $4,250,236
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,592,704

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,855,386
    Expenses
    $3,994,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,044,703

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,388,484
    Expenses
    $3,480,544
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,294,931

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,481,695
    Expenses
    $3,593,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $815,405

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,841,098
    Expenses
    $2,983,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $918,159

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,220,290
    Expenses
    $3,065,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $955,214

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,373,112
    Expenses
    $3,114,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,749,480

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,367,824
    Expenses
    $2,792,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,507,317

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,796,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,918,340

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.