Minnesota · Nonprofit
CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,500 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $728k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Cass County Economic Development Corporation does
Mission
To work cooperatively with cass county government, businesses and community resources to improve the economy by creating new job opportunities, retaining current employment opportunities, and increasing capital investment in cass county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cass County Economic Development Corporation provided 1,050 hours of assistance to about 142 businesses in the fiscal year. Each business received assistance to start, improve or expand their business. Most often the edc helped the owners write a business plan, select a site, or access financing. As a satellite small business development center, we help these businesses recognize the benefits and risks of their business idea. The cass county edc administers a small revolving loan fund to help encourage new and expanding manufacturing businesses. All activities undertaken by the edc are intended to create new jobs, retain existing employment, and increase capital investment in cass county to strengthen the business environment.
$156,982 spent$115,481 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,982.
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 $1.0M to $1.8M (+75%).
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 65% · 2018 40% · 2019 53% · 2020 47% · 2021 44% · 2022 60% · 2023 25% · 2024 78% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $31k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 97% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $51k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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
CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,500 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $112,500 in grants to CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 5 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