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Empowering Kids Perham

Empowering Kids Perham (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,986 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$352k
Grants received
$685k
Net assets
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

Empowering Kids Perham has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($202k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2019 Revenue 154 ($310k) Expenses 183 ($261k) Net assets 184 ($108k)2020 Revenue 180 ($362k) Expenses 286 ($409k) Net assets 104 ($61k)2021 Revenue 882 ($1.8M) Expenses 399 ($571k) Net assets 2454 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 328 ($661k) Expenses 668 ($954k) Net assets 1913 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 635 ($1.3M) Expenses 930 ($1.3M) Net assets 1963 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 729 ($1.5M) Expenses 1143 ($1.6M) Net assets 1792 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 530 ($1.1M) Expenses 1025 ($1.5M) Net assets 1167 ($685k)
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Revenue (530)Expenses (1025)Net assets (1167)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of Empowering Kids Perham’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
18
$49k
19
$47k
20
$1.2M
21
$294k
22
$49k
23
$163k
24
$397k
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $41k → $65k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)31% 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 Empowering Kids Perham’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

Empowering Kids Perham leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

41% 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 Empowering Kids Perham.

58%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 85% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 77%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

50% of Empowering Kids Perham's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of Empowering Kids Perham's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

ID
MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Empowering Kids Perham

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 21%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

42%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Empowering Kids Perham: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Empowering Kids Perham?
Empowering Kids Perham (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,986 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($205,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Empowering Kids Perham have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $351,986 in grants to Empowering Kids Perham, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Empowering Kids Perham?
OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Empowering Kids Perham 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.

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing