Minnesota · Nonprofit
CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER
CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,025,543 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,590,802). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Cultural Wellness Center does
Mission
Cultural Wellness Center's mission is to unleash the power of people to heal themselves and to build community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Cultural Wellness Center is the national program office of community solutions for health equity (cshe), a national program funded by the robert wood johnson foundation, is a collaborative partnership between 11 community-based organizations across the united states who are working to mitigate healthcare systems barriers and practices that perpetuate health inequities in their local communities. As the national program office, cwc provides and fosters access to frameworks, tools and approaches that fortify leadership development, community engagement and strategic direction to health care systems transformation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Member services: cwc works with people and families to apply the cultural wellness process to address challenges resulting from isolation, loss of community, and loss of culture. This is our core mission work. While member services does not appear to generate positive revenue when examined in isolation, the knowledge produced is what gives cwc authority and makes other areas of work valuable to customers.invisible college: cwc applies the cultural wellness process to improve institutional outcomes in underserved communities.see schedule o for remaining program languagethrough classes, coaching, and consulting, institutional leadership and stakeholders study the role of culture as a tool to navigate institutional systems. In 2021, customers included ramsey county,mcknight foundation, project for pride in living, minneapolis institute of arts, community catalyst, and others. Health institute: cwc performed highest among agencies contracted by mn dept of health to reduce disparities in covid-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. In the backyard health hub supported by allina health, 200 people participated virtually in culture well learning cohorts. Thousands attended online…
$2,937,950 spent$7,432 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,937,950.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $5.7M (+273%).
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 36% · 2022 42% · 2023 8% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Harvey Linder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $60k → $4.0M.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
29% 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 CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 29% · 2021 40% · 2022 48% · 2023 65% — 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
59% of CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
58% of CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 CULTURAL WELLNESS 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 CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER?
- CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,025,543 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,590,802). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $9,025,543 in grants to CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,590,802 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURAL WELLNESS 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 36 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