Minnesota · Nonprofit
EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC
EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,500 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($102,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $218k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Emerge Enterprises Inc does
Mission
Emerge enterprises, inc. Operates sustainable social enterprises that empower people facing employment barriers to re-enter the workforce and achieve life-long success within their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Emerge enterprises consists of environmentally focused social enterprise businesses that provide crucial transitional jobs and wrap around support to people returning to community from incarceration. Second chance recycling and furnish office and home provide 100 transitional employment opportunities per year while reducing waste through mattress recycling and sales of gently used office furniture. In 2025, 103 participants worked in transitional jobs at emerge enterprise businesses-second chance recycling and furnish office and home-and nearly 90,000 mattresses and 265 tons of used furniture were diverted from landfills. In addition, second chance removal was launched as a new social enterprise, which provides eco-friendly office furniture removal solutions for businesses that are relocating, downsizing, orupgrading their workspaces.
$2,348,228 spent$1,765,933 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,348,228.
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.
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 $4.4M to $6.4M (+47%).
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 18% · 2020 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 18% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michael Wynne
President & CEO
Board chair
Sheila Dowling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $103k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC’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
EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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
54% of EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like EMERGE ENTERPRISES 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Second Chance Recycling LLC · disregarded
- Furnish Office and Home LLC · disregarded
- Emerge Community Development · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC: 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 EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC?
- EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $217,500 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($102,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $217,500 in grants to EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGE ENTERPRISES INC?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGE ENTERPRISES 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 2017–2024), 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