Minnesota · Nonprofit
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,000 to it, the largest being CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $358k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Active Central Mn does
Mission
To promote wellbeing through community-wide support of healthy, active lives. We envision a year-round series of fitness experiences: active people enjoying minnesota's great outdoors, leading healthy lives, and contributing to a vibrant community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Centracare earth day run is central minnesota's premier race event. Held in st. Cloud in april, the event includes a half marathon, half marathon relay, 5k run/walk, 5k team challenge, free 1k kids' run, and a health & fitness festival expo experience. Courses feature great views of the gorgeous mississippi river, rustic trails, and a celebratory finish line atmosphere in downtown st. Cloud on historic st. Germain street.
$245,568 spent$239,309 earned by the program66% of program spendingBuffalo graniteman triathlon is a central minnesota favorite. Held in early june, it offers both sprint and olympic distance triathlons. Beginning with a swim in buffalo lake, the course passes through downtown and follows winding country roads. Working in cooperation with local businesses and giving back to the community, the event welcomes participants from all over to visit and enjoy the natural beauty of the area.
$47,764 spent$48,798 earned by the program13% of program spendingBig lake graniteman is one of minnesota's favorite triathlons. Offering sprint and olympic distance triathlons in early august, the event is held at lakeside park, just 30 minutes from the twin cities and st. Cloud. Participants swim in the clean and clear waters of big lake, enjoy one of the flattest and fastest bike rides in the state, and enjoy a lakeside run that starts and finishes in the park.
$42,002 spent$41,325 earned by the program11% of program spendingApple duathlon has been drawing local and world-class competitors to sartell, minnesota, since 1983. Held in may, the multi-sport event includes a long-course and a short-course duathlon (run-bike-run). A long-time national favorite, apple duathlon welcomes participants of all abilities and is one of only a handful of remaining duathlons in the united states.
$38,418 spent$32,698 earned by the program10% of program spendingClearwater graniteman triathlon attracts participants from across the u.s. And canada. Held in late june, the triathlon in clearwater, minnesota, offers both sprint and olympic distances. Beginning at beautiful warner lake just minutes from I-94, it features a unique point-to-point sprint distance swim course, a bike ride through rolling country roads, and an out-and-back running course with paved and natural surfaces.
$-455 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,297.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $81k to $50k (−38%).
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.
0% of ACTIVE CENTRAL MN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Rick Bauerly
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $81k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 ACTIVE CENTRAL MN’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
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 ACTIVE CENTRAL MN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACTIVE CENTRAL MN
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.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIVE CENTRAL MN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTIVE CENTRAL MN?
- ACTIVE CENTRAL MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $358,000 to it, the largest being CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIVE CENTRAL MN have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $358,000 in grants to ACTIVE CENTRAL MN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIVE CENTRAL MN?
- CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIVE CENTRAL MN 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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