Minnesota · Nonprofit
CLOSE GAPS BY 5
CLOSE GAPS BY 5 (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,428,600 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($406,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Close Gaps by 5 does
Mission
Close Gaps by 5 is on a mission to ensure that minnesota's system of early care and education strategies and investments fully prepares all young children - particularly those living in poverty - to enter kindergarten with the cognitive, social-emotional, physical and language skills they need for success in school, life, and career.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased conducting all operations and dissolved as of 12/31/2022.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Close Gaps by 5 works to strengthen and expand parent aware as minnesota's quality framework for early care and education programs by growing the number of available parent aware rated early care and education programs statewide and working to keep the rating standards strong and tied to what research says children need. This approach is systematically improving the quality of early care and education programs in minnesota. The number of eligible programs that have earned ratings has grown significantly since the inception of parent aware, from just over 500 programs at the end of 2012 to nearly 2,941 as of december 2022. Of the 320,000 minnesota children ages birth-five years who spend time in child care, nearly 100,000 were in parent aware-rated programs in 2022.the grant amount of $152,386 was the final distributed amount when the organization ceased to exist.
$371,819 spentof which $152,386 as grants88% of program spendingClose Gaps by 5 recognizes that building high-quality programs is not enough if families do not have the means to access them. The second focus of close gap's program work is on educating policymakers and the public about the importance of increasing investments to enable access to high-quality early care and education programs by expanding access to early learning scholarships for children in low-income families. The state adopted the early learning scholarship program in 2011. We have been leading partners in promoting the program to policymakers and the public since that time and have reached a level where an estimated 12,000 minnesota children benefit from early learning scholarships annually.
$52,000 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $423,819.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $391k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ericca Maas
Executive director
Board chair
Michael V Ciresi
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income held at $80k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CLOSE GAPS BY 5’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
CLOSE GAPS BY 5 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 CLOSE GAPS BY 5.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of CLOSE GAPS BY 5's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% give in more than one year at all.
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
89% of CLOSE GAPS BY 5's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CLOSE GAPS BY 5
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 CLOSE GAPS BY 5: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5?
- CLOSE GAPS BY 5 (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,428,600 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($406,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLOSE GAPS BY 5 have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,428,600 in grants to CLOSE GAPS BY 5, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLOSE GAPS BY 5?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $406,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLOSE GAPS BY 5 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 14 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