Minnesota · Nonprofit
EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER
EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,371 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($321,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $365k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Edge of the Wilderness Community Center does
Mission
The Edge of the Wilderness Community Center (EWCC) creates opportunities in education, recreation, and the fine arts in the Edge of the Wilderness communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sponsorship of concerts, plays, educational classes, and art exhibits for this area of north central minnesota. We endeavor to keep fine arts and educational opportunities affordable. With our local school district, we act as laison for community and family education programs. See attached detailed list of activities and events accomplished during 2025.
$43,165 spent35% of program spendingCapital improvements made to the fine arts center and athletic complex for isd #318, bigfork mn school.
$79,080 spent65% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,245.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $199k to $115k (−42%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $41k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY 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
EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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: 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 72% · 2022 73% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339 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.
Organizations like EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY 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 EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER?
- EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,371 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($321,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $365,371 in grants to EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER?
- C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $321,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY 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