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ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES

ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,235 to it, the largest being Youthprise ($437,235). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.3M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$697k
Net assets
$5.4M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Association of Minnesota Counties does

Mission

The Association of Minnesota Counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Amc's programs include member services to assist member counties in providing effective county governance. Publications that provide information on legislative updates and amc activities. Educational programs to help keep county commissioners and staff up-to-speed on issues, trends, and technology. Policy analyst services that provide year-round analysis of complex issues that have a significant ramification of county budgets.

    $4,058,980 spent$1,606,128 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,058,980.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 92 ($3.5M) Expenses 94 ($3.3M) Net assets 107 ($4.0M)2021 Revenue 108 ($4.0M) Expenses 99 ($3.4M) Net assets 123 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 112 ($4.2M) Expenses 114 ($4.0M) Net assets 129 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 132 ($5.0M) Expenses 139 ($4.8M) Net assets 132 ($4.9M)2024 Revenue 141 ($5.3M) Expenses 140 ($4.9M) Net assets 144 ($5.4M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (141)Expenses (140)Net assets (144)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $6.4M (+17%).

$5.1M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.6M
$5.4M
$6.4M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$269k
’19
$173k
’20
$596k
’21
$220k
’22
$131k
’23
$428k
’24
13
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.

Chief executive

Julie Ring

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed252734343640
Joined·+5+10+6+14+10
No longer listed·336126
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $239k → $35k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'24*
total
Youthpriseunclassified
$437k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES’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

ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

63% 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 ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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

95% of ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
MD

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

’17
’18
’19
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

Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES

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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

35
board members
40%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Minnesota Counties Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES?
ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $697,235 to it, the largest being Youthprise ($437,235). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $697,235 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES?
Youthprise is the largest funder on record, with $437,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA COUNTIES 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 2019–2024), 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