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APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC

APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE MARTINSON FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$189k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$90k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Appleton Recreation Association Inc does

Mission

To improve the recreational facilities in the local community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To improve the recreational facilities in the local community.

    $103,671 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,671.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($290) Net assets 100 ($8k)2023 Revenue 812 ($70k) Expenses 24380 ($71k) Net assets 91 ($8k)2024 Revenue 828 ($71k) Expenses 24839 ($72k) Net assets 83 ($7k)2025 Revenue 2192 ($189k) Expenses 36438 ($106k) Net assets 1082 ($90k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (2192)Expenses (36438)Net assets (1082)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7k to $90k (+1205%).

$8k
$8k
$7k
$90k
2022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’22
−$743
’23
−$679
’24
$83k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $30k.

From the IRS filings of APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC’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

APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC.

43%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

100% of APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)180% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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 APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC?
APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE MARTINSON FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC?
THE MARTINSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like APPLETON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC 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 3 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