Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMPASS INSTITUTE
COMPASS INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being EDWIN E PERKINS FOUNDATION XXXXX0003 ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $29k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Compass Institute does
Mission
The mission of Compass Institute is to create a new generation of ethical leaders, active citizens, and innovative thinkers through service-learning, leadership development, and social entrepreneurship. To accomplish that, we support youth leadership development nationally and internationally through professional development, curriculum writing, program evaluation, program development, and coaching to non-profits, schools, universities, foundations, juvenile correctional facilities, and governments.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Training package for the ymca of the north for how to use their community engagement toolkit: created and produced a training that the ymca's team will use nationally on community engagement.
$18,000 spent36% of program spendingJordan's first national conference on the rule of law: designed and led four of the six days for the country of jordan' first national rule of law conference sponsoring by the government and local human rights groups of 40 young jordanians (18 to 40).
$11,000 spent22% of program spendingTwo new survey instruments for measuring authentic community engagement: construct the two surveys below for the ymca of the north:community engagement assessment:construct new survey instrument for nonprofit organizations to assess their level of authentic community engagement.community partnership assessment:construct new survey instrument for nonprofit organizations to assess the qualiity of their community partnership.
$7,200 spent14% of program spendingPeer helping/peer counseling training manual: began a multi-year project to construct a series of training and organizational manuals for schools that want to develop peer programs to support student mental health and positive school atmosphere.
$6,692 spent13% of program spendingTwo day conference on service-learning: led two day conference for independent school public service directors for the center for spiritual and ethical education in maryland on how to improve their schools' service programs.
$4,518 spent9% of program spendingTwo day conference on student leadership: led two day conference for independent school student leadership directors for the center for spiritual and ethical education in maryland on how to improve their schools' service programs.
$3,213 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,623.
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 2017 to 2018, from $75k to $122k (+62%).
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.
0% of COMPASS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of COMPASS INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
COMPASS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
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
COMPASS INSTITUTE's revenue fell 43% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,605 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 COMPASS INSTITUTE: 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 COMPASS INSTITUTE?
- COMPASS INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being EDWIN E PERKINS FOUNDATION XXXXX0003 ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to COMPASS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS INSTITUTE?
- EDWIN E PERKINS FOUNDATION XXXXX0003 is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS INSTITUTE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1 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