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ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION

ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,066 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($802,449). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$135k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$3.4M
4/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Albert Lea Public Education Foundation does

Mission

To serve the students of district 241 by identifying educational needs and creating financial support through creating permanent endowments and developing funding for the creation and maintenance of new programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provided several grants to the albert lea school district and scholarships to students entering college.

    $215,341 spentof which $150,712 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,341.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($380k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 45 ($170k) Expenses 119 ($135k) Net assets 97 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 145 ($551k) Expenses 140 ($159k) Net assets 128 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 31 ($117k) Expenses 106 ($120k) Net assets 135 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 38 ($145k) Expenses 126 ($142k) Net assets 162 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 51 ($192k) Expenses 154 ($174k) Net assets 149 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 25 ($93k) Expenses 137 ($156k) Net assets 158 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 35 ($135k) Expenses 198 ($224k) Net assets 167 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (35)Expenses (198)Net assets (167)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 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+32%).

$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$3.3M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$3.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$267k
’17
$35k
’18
$392k
’19
−$3k
’20
$2k
’21
$19k
’22
−$62k
’23
−$90k
’24
30
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.

Board chair

Neal Skaar

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed410111012121211
Joined·+6+6+3+3+1+2+0
No longer listed·0541121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $51k → $215k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

76%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 88% — 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

93% of ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
FL

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

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’21
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $988k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−67% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve29.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

48%

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 ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,059,066 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($802,449). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,059,066 in grants to ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $802,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALBERT LEA PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing