Minnesota · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,821 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($22,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundationshared funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio match
- American Water Works Associationportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2021 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $12k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS’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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 40% · 2019 44% · 2020 40% · 2021 49% · 2022 57% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Water Works Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Institute of Architectsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Shooting Sports Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Buildersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eggnog Latte Foundation Dba Renee and Jeff Harbers Family Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis Publications Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacobs Engineering Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,821 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($22,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $42,821 in grants to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $22,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing