Minnesota · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION
ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,550 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($187,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $624k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $422k
- Net assets
- $315k
What Advocates for Reproductive Education does
Mission
To increase access and decrease barriers to accurate sexual health information and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weare - the clinic, a reproductive health clinic, opened in october 2017. We have had over 5000 client visits since opening, providing education, affordable birth control options, and/or testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (sti). All clients are screened for enrollment into the minnesota family planning program (mfpp). Mfpp covers free and confidential family planning services, including annual exams, birth control, sti testing and treatment, and pregnancy testing. This is especially important for youth or young adults who don't wish to use their parents' insurance because of confidentiality. Weare is the only healthcare organization in crow wing county enrolling clients in mfpp. About 45% of our clients enroll in mfpp. Weare operates 2 outreach clinics. Weare@clc is our outreach clinic located on the campus at clc. This clinic is staffed with an rn and offers free education, sti testing/treatment and emergency contraception and pregnancy tests available to the more than 3900 students who attend the college. Clients wanting birth control options, including condoms, oral contraceptives, rings, patches, iuds, and implants, are referred to the weare - the clinic…
$224,290 spentof which $3 as grants$127,208 earned by the program51% of program spendingWeare is committed to providing accurate, evidence-based information to youth and young adults. Weare is currently expanding our education programming into 7 areas: sti, birth control, anatomy, consent, healthy relationships, parent/child workshops, and gender 101. We have reached thousands of youth and young adults since 2016. Weare offers several education opportunities throughout the community, including sexual health for 8th and 9th graders, programs for at-risk teens, lgbtq+ community and events and education sessions at the local community college. Weare clinical staff work closely with the nursing students, providing sexual health education to enhance existing curriculum. Outreach education programming continues to expand to new audiences with classes for parents of children enrolled in ecfe (early childhood and family education) and sexual health education for youth and young adults at partner organization including: the shop, port home for girls and boys, alternative education center and lutheran social services. In 2025, let's talk, our education program reached around 1,400 people with evidence-based, medically accurate information about healthy relationships, consent,…
$218,597 spent$1,899 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,887.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $270k to $170k (−37%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 41% · 2023 29% · 2024 42% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Jennifer Perez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $15k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION’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
ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 69% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
93% of ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k 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.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION: 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 ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION?
- ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,550 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($187,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $421,550 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $187,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION 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 8 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