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CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER

CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,664 to it, the largest being REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL ($79,292). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$728k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$356k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Clear Waters Life Center does

Mission

A faith-based community of people providing a place to impart hope and enrich the lives of individuals and families.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Senior services is for clearwater county residents 60 yr and over. Services include transportation to medical appointments, homecare for general house work & chore service for small outdoor projects (snow removal, lawn mowing, etc)

    $83,576 spent$13,016 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  2. Mustard seed homes is for adult men and provides vocational training, life skills training, mentoring, support groups and development of a healthy physical and spiritual life.

    $181,998 spent$83,271 earned by the program
    34% of program spending
  3. Youth connection is an after school youth program that provides a safe place for play, mentoring, leadership training and family and community connections.

    $64,652 spent$467 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  4. Community engagement which includes fundraisers and classes that engage the community & the mn cep program which allows people (over 55) from the program to work in the different facilities (grow it, restore it and shop-at-the-top).

    $200,457 spent$9,814 earned by the program
    38% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $530,683.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($473k) Expenses 100 ($475k) Net assets 100 ($266k)2018 Revenue 100 ($473k) Expenses 102 ($485k) Net assets 96 ($255k)2019 Revenue 108 ($512k) Expenses 110 ($524k) Net assets 91 ($243k)2020 Revenue 119 ($565k) Expenses 114 ($541k) Net assets 100 ($266k)2021 Revenue 167 ($790k) Expenses 123 ($584k) Net assets 177 ($472k)2022 Revenue 126 ($594k) Expenses 137 ($650k) Net assets 156 ($416k)2023 Revenue 135 ($640k) Expenses 143 ($677k) Net assets 143 ($380k)2024 Revenue 154 ($728k) Expenses 155 ($737k) Net assets 134 ($356k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (155)Net assets (134)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $331k to $481k (+45%).

$271k
$259k
$292k
$331k
$481k
$425k
$382k
$413k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2019
2020
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 5% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$12k
’18
−$12k
’19
$23k
’20
$206k
’21
−$56k
’22
−$37k
’23
−$9k
’24
3.4
months of
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.

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Listed1212111011111010
Joined·+0+3+0+2+3+2+0
No longer listed·0411330
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $42k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER’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

CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER.

33%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 96% · 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 48% · 2022 83% · 2023 56% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $82k on record.

Federal$82k
grants $82kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$82k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER: 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 CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER?
CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,664 to it, the largest being REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL ($79,292). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $240,664 in grants to CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER?
REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $79,292 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEAR WATERS LIFE CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing