Minnesota · Nonprofit
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,557 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($352,985). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $694k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $556k
What Family Values for Life does
Mission
Family Values for Life partners with families to cultivate communities that are spiritually empowered, mentally alert, physically fit and financially secure. Together we build capacities for families to network and leverage resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
U-Turn 180 Youth Program - family meals, homework help, recreation, and creative arts workshops, camps during the summer, and facilitated discussion groups for high school students. This program provided a safe and supportive environment for 268 unduplicated youth in grades K-12 during 25. This included 36 after-school sessions offering homework help and social/emotional skill-building, 40 K-5th graders, Sept-May. Evenings were also extended to offer music/children's choir activities. We also offered 30 "Chatterbox" facilitated discussions and academic support for high school students. --Reading program - as part of the youth program, we provide elementary students with before/after-school and 6-week summer reading support. 100% of students who attended 2025 Summer Reading Academy experienced an increase in literacy skills (and the rest maintained skills). This program is primarily supported by multi-year funding from Saint Paul Children's Collaborative. --Back to School event - provides free backpacks with school supplies and connects families to community partners. In 2025, Family Values for Life distributed 3,500 backpacks filled with supplies (in-kind value of $262,500). We…
$98,018 spent17% of program spendingJump Start to the New You - helps single heads-of-household (mostly women) build skills, access resources, and become engaged parents, providers, and community members through weekly workshops and periodic events. We provided 75 Jump Start to the New You workshops for 73 regular participants. --Beauty for Ashes - grief and trauma counseling and support for women through individual and group settings. We offered 48 Beauty for Ashes group sessions (healing circle conversations) Approximately 50 women participated.
$39,687 spent7% of program spending-Family support - through case management and community referrals. It is our aim to be a "one-stop shop" for families in crisis, either by providing services or connecting them to what they need. In partnership with Ramsey County, we provided Family-Centered Coaching/case management to 42 families during 2025. The family coach made 408 referrals to additional families for other community resources. Our M Health Fairview Cultural Broker held 70 families (cases) over the last year. 580 additional families (encounters) received resource referrals (encounters). --Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies - provides prenatal and postpartum education and support. 40+ women participated in multiple workshop series. We held two group baby shower + doula showcase events that included information and equipping new moms with baby supplies, along with an additional graduation event. In 2025, 44 moms participated in at least one workshop series, and either have graduated or are due to graduate from the program. A second family coach works with the women in this program.
$350,690 spent63% of program spendingBasic needs support - 5x/week (and by appointment) food shelf, quarterly household supplies distribution, holiday food boxes, and crisis financial assistance. This program has expanded significantly, including the 2024 opening of two resource centers at Dayton's Bluff and Bruce Vento Elementary schools, open five days per week and an additional resource center opened in 2025 at the SOL Center. We provided 400+ Thanksgiving food boxes and served a Christmas meal to 75 families (100 children received Christmas gifts) in 2025. At just our onsite food shelf, Family Values for Life has distributed nearly 2 million pounds of food in 2025 with the resource centers, onsite food shelf, and holiday programs.
$72,612 spent13% of program spendingCommunity outreach events and goals- help build community and counter the social isolation felt by so many in poverty. In 2025, personal development and support events included Women's Conference (~150 attendees +staff, volunteers and vendors, speakers, and children etc) and I Heart Mom Mother's Day event (~90 attendees). We also offered three family-focused events, including: Family Roller Skating, Trunk or Treat Halloween event (250 attendees), Christmas event (family meal + gifts to 100 children). To support family success, we have adopted specific basic needs program targets for the year: --4,000-5,000 families (20,000 individuals) will visit the food shelf and receive immediate basic needs support plus information about ongoing Family Values for Life programs that support financial stability. --2 million pounds of food will be distributed through our food assistance programs --200 families will access crisis financial assistance to improve short-term financial stability. --1,050 families visit school-based resource centers As part of our ongoing work to build family stability, we also anticipate the following results: --200 families will access crisis financial assistance to…
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The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $561,007.
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 2020 to 2021, from $235k to $449k (+91%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
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
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
Shateka Flowers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $40k → $240k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 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
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 30% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 30% · 2023 15% — 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
60% of FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
99% of FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k 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.
Against its field
FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE
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
77% 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 FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: 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 FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE?
- FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,557 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($352,985). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,548,557 in grants to FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $352,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE 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 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing