North Dakota · Nonprofit
CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,317 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $513k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Central Regional Education Association does
Mission
Be the premier organization that provides leadership and is adaptable to the ever-changing needs of the schools and the students they educate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To build meaningful relationships with our members in order to respond to their needs.
$10,060,392 spent$2,495,845 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,060,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $485k to $1.3M (+171%).
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: 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 73% · 2024 60% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Luke Schaefer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $136k → $325k.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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
CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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
67% of CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from North Dakota 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
CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Justice$500k
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 CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 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 CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (North Dakota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,317 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $513,317 in grants to CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- MISSOURI RIVER EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL REGIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2021–2025), 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