Minnesota · Nonprofit
ALONGSIDE NETWORK
ALONGSIDE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,383 to it, the largest being ITTLESON FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $226k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Alongside Network does
Mission
Alongside Network is working to shift the system of care for families who have a child with a life-threatening illness or injury, such that care for mental health is integrated throughout their hospital and recovery experience. Using our whole child, whole family framework, we work with hospital systems to raise awareness and determine a trajectory of care. We also work directly with families to validate, connect, and support them as they adjust to life following a child's life-threatening illness or injury.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support - Alongside Network's direct support is focused on parents and caregivers who have a child with a life-threatening illness or injury. We use a highly researched six-week intervention that validates parents' experiences, builds community, and increases coping skills.
$53,257 spent$2,500 earned by the program32% of program spendingPractitioners - outreach - we can't focus on the patient family experience without also focusing on providers. We do outreach and training for providers across hospital settings in order to increase provider confidence in having emotionally-based conversations with patient families, increase provider knowledge of pediatric medical traumatic stress including their role in minimizing and mitigating this common phenomenon, and we train providers coping skills in order to increase their own resiliency.
$50,546 spent$47,000 earned by the program30% of program spendingFamilies - oureach - Alongside Network partners with organizations across the country to raise awareness of pediatric medical traumatic stress and to share our resources for supporting patient families. Through outreach to diagnosis communities and other nonprofit and government agencies, we aim to grow our network of patient families and like-minded orgs supporting these same families.
$45,738 spent28% of program spendingOther programs - general programs.
$16,377 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,918.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $29k to $165k (+462%).
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.
78% of ALONGSIDE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Aspengren
Founder and CEO
Board chair
Rachel Zahn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $124k → $198k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 ALONGSIDE NETWORK’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
ALONGSIDE NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 ALONGSIDE NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 39% · 2023 25% — 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
ALONGSIDE NETWORK draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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.
Against its field
ALONGSIDE NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALONGSIDE NETWORK
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALONGSIDE NETWORK: 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 ALONGSIDE NETWORK?
- ALONGSIDE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,383 to it, the largest being ITTLESON FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALONGSIDE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $437,383 in grants to ALONGSIDE NETWORK, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALONGSIDE NETWORK?
- ITTLESON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALONGSIDE NETWORK 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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