Minnesota · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY WOODS
DISCOVERY WOODS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429 to it, the largest being Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation ($4,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $363k
What Discovery Woods does
Mission
To provide brainerd lakes area families a choice for high quality elementary education centered around the individual needs of the child with a focus on the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided a montessori concept public elementary school for students in the brainerd, mn area. The school served 94 students in grades kindegarten through sixth in fy25.
$1,143,526 spent$40,803 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,143,526.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.4M to $2.2M (+57%).
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: 2018 91% · 2019 87% · 2020 92% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 85% · 2024 93% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DISCOVERY WOODS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Kara Devriendt
Executive director
Board chair
Emma Needham
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $88.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 DISCOVERY WOODS’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
DISCOVERY WOODS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
DISCOVERY WOODS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $434 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.
Against its field
DISCOVERY WOODS is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISCOVERY WOODS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $136k on record.
- Department of Education$136k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DISCOVERY WOODS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Discovery Woods School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISCOVERY WOODS: 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 DISCOVERY WOODS?
- DISCOVERY WOODS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,429 to it, the largest being Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation ($4,995). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY WOODS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,429 in grants to DISCOVERY WOODS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY WOODS?
- Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY WOODS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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