Minnesota · Nonprofit
BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES
BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $336,900 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($127,782). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Lancer Youth Hockey Association Inclocal
- Bbch Community Partnersportfolio match
- Taylor Family Foundation Incportfolio 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.
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: 2017 63% · 2018 78% · 2019 87% · 2020 74% · 2021 68% · 2022 92% · 2023 88% · 2024 68% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $32k → $42k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES’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
BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 57% · 2019 49% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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
BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES draws 55% 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. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
- Lancer Youth Hockey Association InclocalMN · funds 3 organizations near you
- Bbch Community Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taylor Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Herbert and Peggy Stockham Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Faith Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunnen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LP Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs George W Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R & R Realty Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gallogly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge Skyline Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $196k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$196k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
63% 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 BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES: 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 BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES?
- BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $336,900 to it, the largest being GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ($127,782). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $336,900 in grants to BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES?
- GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $127,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUFF COUNTRY FAMILY RESOURCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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