Minnesota · Nonprofit
AMAZEWORKS
AMAZEWORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,189 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($227,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $906k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $735k
- Net assets
- $278k
What Amazeworks does
Mission
The mission of Amazeworks is to champion equity and belonging for all. We envision a world in which every person can reach their full potential because they are seen, heard, and valued for all of who they are. We provide research-based, anti-bias education curricula, training, resources, and support to educators to create equitable, connected learning communities for all children. We also work with other nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, and community and government agencies providing anti-bias, equity training and consulting services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Amazeworks provides anti-bias education programs and resources to address these core issues. Our literature-based elementary curriculum, persona doll program, and video-based middle school curriculum engage students in regular, intentional conversations on identity, difference, and bias. As they share stories, listen to new perspectives, and engage in anti-bias discussions, students build empathy, practice social-emotional skills, and learn to respond appropriately to bias. Our classroom dynamics program provides teachers with strategies and tools to create more connected classrooms. Amazeworks also provides professional development training, consultation, and coaching to schools and educators focused on anti-bias education, culturally responsive teaching practices, and social-emotional learning.
$388,418 spent$378,796 earned by the program70% of program spendingIn recent years, Amazeworks has seen a significant increase in our anti-bias, equity services to nonprofits, for-profits, municipalities, and government agencies across the state. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging training and consulting services, we help them create more inclusive workplace cultures, policies, and practices that center equity and belonging for all of their stakeholders.
$169,198 spent$399,518 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $557,616.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $146k to $339k (+133%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of AMAZEWORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
Chief executive
Rebecca Slaby
Executive director
Board chair
Priya Narula
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $42k → $121k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 AMAZEWORKS’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
AMAZEWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 AMAZEWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 38% · 2019 58% · 2020 37% · 2021 22% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% — 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
54% of AMAZEWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
90% of AMAZEWORKS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AMAZEWORKS has grown faster than half of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMAZEWORKS
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 AMAZEWORKS: 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 AMAZEWORKS?
- AMAZEWORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $735,189 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($227,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMAZEWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $735,189 in grants to AMAZEWORKS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMAZEWORKS?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMAZEWORKS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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