Minnesota · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,867,500 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,406,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $609k
What Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc does
Mission
Conservation minnesota voter center researches public opinion and government actions on conservation issues, providing reliable information to help minnesotans make decisions that protect the health of our air, water, communities and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cultivating leaders:there are many ways that cmvc works to increase the number of state leaders working to protect our lakes, lands, and way of life. It rewards conservation champions by publicly recognizing their leadership. Cmvc also works behind the scenes to recruit strong candidates to seek appointed and elected offices that impact the great outdoors. During elections, it provides voters with unbiased and positively presented information about the conservation records of candidates.
$1,185,857 spentof which $380,000 as grants67% of program spendingFacts at your fingertips:cmvc believes in accountability. It researches public opinion and government actions so that reliable information is available to make decisions. It provides financial support to maintain and manage conservation minnesota's checkmylegislator.org website. This website makes elected officials' conservation voting records available in real time, all the time, to every minnesotan.
$575,420 spentof which $509,456 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,761,277.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $648k (−59%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Paul Austin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $614k → $1.3M.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $342k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Conservation Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC’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
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 88% · 2020 50% · 2021 61% · 2022 66% · 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.
Where its funders are
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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 CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Conservation Minnesota · exempt
- Conservation Minnesota Voter Project · exempt
- Conservation Minnesota Voter Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC: 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 CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC?
- CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,867,500 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,406,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $5,867,500 in grants to CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC?
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,406,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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