Minnesota · Nonprofit
Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics
Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,011 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,006). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $581k
What Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics does
Mission
We work to ensure all consumers are empowered to choose better businesses and protect themselves from subpar marketplace behavior, and that all businesses have the resources and skills to succeed in the marketplace and become trustworthy businesses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To advance our mission, we recognize marketplace role models through BBB's annual Torch Awards for Ethics and award a Student of Integrity scholarship to high school seniors. We focus heavily on fraud prevention education, offering around 60 in-person and virtual programs for at-risk populations annually, including seniors and college students. Our initiatives include managing CAMF (Coalition Against Marketplace Fraud) and producing multilingual scam prevention materials. We also expand our impact through strategic partnerships with public and private organizations such as law enforcement in both Minnesota and North Dakota, the MN Secretary of State, Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission, and other regional business groups.
$65,235 spentof which $2,500 as grants$33,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,235.
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 2024 to 2025, from $470k to $581k (+23%).
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.
76% of Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
John Owens
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics’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
Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Better Business Bureau of Minnesota Inc · exempt
- Better Business Bureau Forward Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics: 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 Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics?
- Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,011 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,006). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,011 in grants to Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics.
- Who is the largest funder of Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,006 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Better Business Bureau Institute for Marketplace Ethics 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