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DINOMIGHTS

DINOMIGHTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,898 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION ($440,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$870k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$662k
24/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Dinomights does

Mission

The mission of Dinomights is to equip our urban youth to develop physical, academic, social and spiritual excellence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization served over 600 youth ages 5-18 with a minimum of 7-10 hours of programming per week, our most ever participants. The overall goal of the program is encompassed in the mission statement: "to equip our urban youth to develop physical, academic, social, and spiritual excellence." physical excellence: the ice hockey program is where students develop their potential for physical strength, agility, and coordination. It incorporates practices and games during hockey season (skating 2-4 hours/week from october through march); hockey camps (1-2 weeks in june/july and 1-2 weeks in august. About 20 hours programming each), street hockey, and other physical activities in the summer. Dinomights is part of the minneapolis park and recreation league as well as usa hockey and minnesota hockey. The hockey program is also recognized by the nhl as one of only ahandful of hockey is for everyone programs in north america. Hockey players are given skills evaluations at the beginning and end of the hockey season. Academic excellence: the elementary tutoring program meets once a week at cristo rey jesuit high school during the school year (tuesdays, october through april).…

    $694,777 spent$1,824 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Available upon request

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,777.

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 ($451k) Expenses 100 ($442k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2018 Revenue 165 ($745k) Expenses 125 ($553k) Net assets 251 ($351k)2019 Revenue 96 ($434k) Expenses 139 ($615k) Net assets 121 ($170k)2020 Revenue 104 ($467k) Expenses 117 ($519k) Net assets 85 ($119k)2021 Revenue 166 ($750k) Expenses 123 ($543k) Net assets 233 ($327k)2022 Revenue 148 ($666k) Expenses 141 ($625k) Net assets 263 ($367k)2023 Revenue 250 ($1.1M) Expenses 177 ($784k) Net assets 507 ($709k)2024 Revenue 193 ($870k) Expenses 201 ($890k) Net assets 473 ($662k)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (201)Net assets (473)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 2022 to 2023, from $367k to $710k (+93%).

$143k
$364k
$177k
$201k
$327k
$367k
$710k
$712k
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2023 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

102% of DINOMIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,454 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$192k
’18
−$181k
’19
−$51k
’20
$207k
’21
$41k
’22
$344k
’23
−$21k
’24
1.6
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.

Board chair

Lee Krueger

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed886108788
Joined·+0+1+5+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·0313101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $96k → $297k.

10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 DINOMIGHTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

DINOMIGHTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

71% 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 DINOMIGHTS.

27%
largest funder
56%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 58% · 2019 41% · 2020 16% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 31% — 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 DINOMIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of DINOMIGHTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
WI
NY
PA
CO
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $663k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DINOMIGHTS has grown faster than half of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like DINOMIGHTS

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 14%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds DINOMIGHTS?
DINOMIGHTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,653,898 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION ($440,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DINOMIGHTS have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,653,898 in grants to DINOMIGHTS, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DINOMIGHTS?
MINNESOTA WILD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DINOMIGHTS 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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing