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Divine Institute Inc

Divine Institute Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($423). 3 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
$1.7M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$423
Net assets
$768k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Divine Institute Inc does

Mission

To elevate the interpersonal development of youth through literacy and enrichment initiatives which foster life-long learning

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Divine Institute continues to develop youth through positive

    $1,013,952 spent$1,335,326 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,013,952.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($743k) Expenses 100 ($487k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2021 Revenue 136 ($1.0M) Expenses 191 ($930k) Net assets 355 ($416k)2022 Revenue 180 ($1.3M) Expenses 245 ($1.2M) Net assets 510 ($598k)2023 Revenue 205 ($1.5M) Expenses 266 ($1.3M) Net assets 621 ($728k)2024 Revenue 235 ($1.7M) Expenses 353 ($1.7M) Net assets 655 ($768k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (235)Expenses (353)Net assets (655)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 $479k to $2.1M (+340%).

$479k
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.7M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of Divine Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$256k
’20
$79k
’21
$149k
’22
$231k
’23
$30k
’24
2.5
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

Aretta-Rie Johnson

Executive Director

Board chair

Maya M Buckner

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed66566
Joined·+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $65.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
3
2
3
3
2
1

1 of 4 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 Divine Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 4 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Divine Institute Inc'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. $423 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

Divine Institute Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Divine Institute Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Divine Institute Inc?
Divine Institute Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $423 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($423). 3 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 Divine Institute Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $423 in grants to Divine Institute Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Divine Institute Inc?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Divine Institute Inc 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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