Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY THREAD
COMMUNITY THREAD (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,169,201 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,363,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Community Thread does
Mission
Promote and support community volunteerism by providing resources
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Thrive Program was established in April 2022 to assist older adults and individuals with disabilities living in the Stillwater Area. By engaging volunteers, this membership-based program helps fill requests for basic home assistance, such as cleaning, with the goal of making it easier for individuals to remain living at home. The program engages volunteer drivers who take people to and from needed appointments and to access community services. This program is available to all eligible residents of Stillwater School District 834 and anyone unable to pay the membership fee is subsidized. The program also provides referrals and connections to resources for the public at large and offers the amenities of two Community Centers. These centers provide programs and activities that enhance the well-being of older adults. The Stillwater site also offers free income tax preparation assistance and other services in partnership with other nonprofit organizations.
$434,640 spent$7,578 earned by the program55% of program spendingThe Volunteer Center serves individuals and organizations through four primary functions: connecting people to opportunities to serve through a searchable database of volunteer opportunities; building capacity for local volunteering by providing training and support in volunteer management to local nonprofit organizations; promoting volunteerism in the community; and providing special community-wide service initiatives. For example, for over 50 years Community Thread has been providing help during the holidays through the Holiday Hope program (formerly Holiday Bureau). The program serves families, people with disabilities, and older adults by matching them with sponsors who provide gifts. The program passes through in-kind gifts to program recipients.
$354,575 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $789,215.
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 2020 to 2021, from $801k to $997k (+24%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 73% · 2021 16% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COMMUNITY THREAD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Derrick Jaeger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $59k → $433k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 COMMUNITY THREAD’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
COMMUNITY THREAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 58% · 2019 51% · 2020 39% · 2021 33% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
69% of COMMUNITY THREAD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
100% of COMMUNITY THREAD's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY THREAD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY THREAD
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 COMMUNITY THREAD: 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 COMMUNITY THREAD?
- COMMUNITY THREAD (Minnesota) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,169,201 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,363,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY THREAD have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,169,201 in grants to COMMUNITY THREAD, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY THREAD?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,363,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY THREAD 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 29 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