Minnesota · Nonprofit
BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA
BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($57,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Boreal Community Media does
Mission
Provide local news, information about community activities and connections to residents and visitors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides web page rentals and computer technical support to its members. These members include educational institutions and other nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses within cook county minnesota. During the current year the organization provided services to almost 1,200 members.
The organization provides web page rentals and computer technical support to its members. These members include educational institutions and other nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses within cook county minnesota. During the current year the organization provided services to almost 1,200 members.
$86,073 spent$65,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,073.
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 2018 to 2019, from $62k to $99k (+59%).
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.
1% of BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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.
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
Anne Brataas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA’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
BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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
100% of BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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
BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA is better cushioned than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA: 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 BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA?
- BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,000 to it, the largest being LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($57,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $67,000 in grants to BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA?
- LLOYD K JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOREAL COMMUNITY MEDIA 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