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DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $106 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($106). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$111k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$106
Net assets
$413k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Destination Education a Scholarship Foundation does

Mission

To provide scholarships and funding opportunities to youth for activities promoting the furtherance of education. To advance education and science, combat community deterioration and lessen the burdens of government.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

The organization holds an investment with mair & power with the goal

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($246k)2018 Revenue 28 ($17k) Expenses 87 ($45k) Net assets 86 ($211k)2019 Revenue 57 ($34k) Expenses 81 ($42k) Net assets 99 ($242k)2020 Revenue 36 ($22k) Expenses 60 ($31k) Net assets 103 ($254k)2021 Revenue 168 ($100k) Expenses 56 ($29k) Net assets 149 ($366k)2022 Revenue 12 ($7k) Expenses 96 ($50k) Net assets 124 ($305k)2023 Revenue 60 ($36k) Expenses 82 ($43k) Net assets 128 ($315k)2024 Revenue 187 ($111k) Expenses 61 ($32k) Net assets 168 ($413k)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (61)Net assets (168)Peer revenue range

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 $254k to $366k (+44%).

$247k
$215k
$242k
$254k
$366k
$308k
$317k
$413k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$29k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$10k
’20
$71k
’21
’22
’23
’24
154
months of
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

Chris Schmidt

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1414151515151514
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·0000012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $56.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’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

100% of DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve154.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $106 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($106). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $106 in grants to DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DESTINATION EDUCATION A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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