Minnesota · Nonprofit
ELDER NETWORK
ELDER NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,488,766 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($1,369,811). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $958k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $420k
What Elder Network does
Mission
Those 55 and better and their caregivers have the opportunity to thrive and lead rewarding lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
With the support of staff, volunteers and donors, Elder Network provides direct client services such as senior advocacy, companion services, friendly visitor, non-medical transportation, medical transportation, caregiver respite, caregiver consulting, support groups, education, pearls, technology assistance program, group respite, and others. Elder Network provided services in dodge, olmsted, wabasha, and winona counties in 2025. Elder Network staff and volunteers provided over 28,900 hours of direct care to over 6,300 older adult & caregiver participants. Senior advocates helped over 618 individuals with 4,309 contacts for housing assistance, medicare assistance, and numerous other programs and services to those older adults and caregivers in need of advocacy. Caregivers received over 12,493 hours of direct respite throughout 2025. Staff scheduled 2,158 rides, and volunteers provided over 1,751 rides to medical and non-medical appointments in olmsted county. Elder Network has helped older adults and those who care for them to maintain their health and independence-helping them have the opportunity to thrive and lead rewarding lives.
$614,187 spent$360,242 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $614,187.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $350k to $651k (+86%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 37% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 31% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of ELDER NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $192k → $416k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 ELDER NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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
ELDER NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 ELDER NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 68% · 2019 47% · 2020 42% · 2021 66% · 2022 51% · 2023 53% — 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
73% of ELDER NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of ELDER NETWORK's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ELDER NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ELDER NETWORK
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELDER NETWORK: 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 ELDER NETWORK?
- ELDER NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,488,766 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ($1,369,811). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELDER NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,488,766 in grants to ELDER NETWORK, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELDER NETWORK?
- SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,369,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELDER NETWORK 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 17 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