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A PLACE TO BELONG

A PLACE TO BELONG (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,696 to it, the largest being FRANK W VEDEN CHARITABLE TRUST ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$349k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$322k
Net assets
$524k
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What A Place to Belong does

Mission

A Place to Belong provides a safe, comfortable, and supportive environment for persons with serious mental health illness who are working on their recovery while living in the community, by means of voluntary recreational, social, educational and community service opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization provides consumer oriented socialization and support options for the mentally ill and compatible non-profit purposes associated with the above and allowed by law. We provide about 2400 hours support and served many people during the year. We have two locations: Fergus Falls and Detroit Lakes. Throughout 2025, we attended the Renaissance Fair, Timberwolves Game, and Mental Health Conferences. We went swimming, bowling, on camping trips, and had coffee outings. We did arts and crafts such as; coloring, diamond art, and wood burning. We played bingo, board games, puzzles, card games, and D&D group. We had bible studies, pizza parties, ice cream outings, and went to the movies. Also at the end of 2025, we purchased a new building so that we can offer handicap accessibility that we could not provide at our current location in Fergus Falls.

    $117,154 spentof which $305,696 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $117,154.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($212k) Expenses 100 ($217k) Net assets 100 ($413k)2021 Revenue 93 ($197k) Expenses 98 ($213k) Net assets 96 ($398k)2022 Revenue 106 ($226k) Expenses 104 ($226k) Net assets 96 ($398k)2023 Revenue 105 ($223k) Expenses 95 ($206k) Net assets 101 ($415k)2024 Revenue 109 ($232k) Expenses 79 ($171k) Net assets 111 ($459k)2025 Revenue 164 ($349k) Expenses 130 ($283k) Net assets 127 ($524k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (164)Expenses (130)Net assets (127)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $459k to $786k (+71%).

$414k
$432k
$401k
$417k
$459k
$786k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of A PLACE TO BELONG’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’20
−$16k
’21
$232
’22
$17k
’23
$61k
’24
$66k
’25
16
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed13911121210
Joined·+1+3+1+6+5
No longer listed·51067
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $30k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of A PLACE TO BELONG’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

A PLACE TO BELONG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A PLACE TO BELONG.

39%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 78% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

38% of A PLACE TO BELONG's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

A PLACE TO BELONG draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.

ND
MN
SD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

A PLACE TO BELONG holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve15.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding A PLACE TO BELONG receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

Federal$75k
grants $75kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$75k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like A PLACE TO BELONG

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

41% of spending goes to programs.

Program 41%Management 30%Fundraising 28%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds A PLACE TO BELONG?
A PLACE TO BELONG (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $321,696 to it, the largest being FRANK W VEDEN CHARITABLE TRUST ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does A PLACE TO BELONG have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $321,696 in grants to A PLACE TO BELONG, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of A PLACE TO BELONG?
FRANK W VEDEN CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like A PLACE TO BELONG find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing