Minnesota · Nonprofit
BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON
BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($67,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon does
Mission
Promoting active health and wellness
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Bringing racing events to the area. Our marathon is a qualifying event for the boston marathon. This promotes activity and health in an area that is at high risk for health issue
$179,572 spentof which $171,452 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $179,572.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19k to $38k (+106%).
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.
33% of BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Philip Knutson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.
From the IRS filings of BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON’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
BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
82% 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 BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON
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.
Public support
97%
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 BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON: 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 BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON?
- BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,500 to it, the largest being SANFORD GROUP RETURN ($67,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,500 in grants to BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON?
- SANFORD GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEMIDJI BLUE OX MARATHON 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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