Minnesota · Nonprofit
Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center
Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,651 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $247k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center does
Mission
To promote Danish culture and to provide services to seniors. The Danish American Center supports and fosters Danish culture through education and the celebration of traditions, customs, and history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Danish Events - The organization hosts cultural events that promote Danish heritage and community engagement. Activities include traditional holiday celebrations, Julefrokost, for adults (90 participants and 40 volunteers) and children, service organization meetings and seasonal luncheons, and Danish Day, an annual celebration of Denmark's Constitution with food, entertainment, cultural displays, and children's activities. These events supported intergenerational participation and strengthened community connections.
$22,682 spent$14,745 earned by the program12% of program spendingEducation - The Danish American Center provides educational and cultural programs to promote Danish language, heritage, and arts. Activities include language and culinary instruction, library services and educational workshops, cultural exhibitions, and preservation of Danish and Scandinavian cultural resources. Members provide translation and notary services, with proceeds benefiting the Center. The Center also enhanced its facilities through a memorial garden and continues to catalog its art collection.
$12,168 spent$5,008 earned by the program6% of program spendingSenior Programs - The organization provides targeted programs that support social connection, cultural engagement, and lifelong learning for older adults, who represent a majority of its membership (58% of 467 membership accounts as of September 2025). Senior-focused activities include Onsdag Frokost, bi-monthly Wednesday luncheons that served over 550 senior participants annually, fostering regular social interaction and community support. Additional programs include Mah-Jongg (48 events annually with 48 seniors per session), weekly watercolor classes (44 sessions with 820 participants), genealogy consultations (approximately 50 sessions with 24 seniors each), and the Saga Writers group, which meets monthly and engages 412 seniors in documenting family histories. Collectively, these programs promote social inclusion, cognitive engagement, creative expression, and preservation of personal and cultural heritage among seniors.
$12,673 spent$11,883 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther Events - The organization provides ongoing cultural and social programs that support socialconnection and lifelong learning. Regular activities include genealogy study groups, folkdancing, reading circles, arts and crafts, and other social gatherings. Programs also featuremusical performances and monthly sing-alongs. In addition, the Center offers recurringcommunity meals such as Aebleskiver breakfast and Onsdag Frokost. The organization alsoprovides meeting space for other cultural and nonprofit organizations.
$146,617 spent$35,986 earned by the program76% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,140.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.7M to $3.5M (−6%).
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.
46% of Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center’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
Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
65% of Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American 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 Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center?
- Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,651 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,651 in grants to Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American Center?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC 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 Danebo Inc DBA The Danish American 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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