Minnesota · Nonprofit
FAMILYMEANS
FAMILYMEANS (Minnesota) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,839,291 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,247,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Familymeans does
Mission
Familymeans strengthens communities by helping individuals and families through challenges in all life stages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling and therapyFamilymeans is a mn and wi licensed mental health clinic with offices in hudson, stillwater, st. Paul, and 14 schools in two school districts. Services include outpatient assessment and counseling services to address a wide variety of mental health issues to all who request services, regardless of ability to pay. The center for grief and loss in st. Paul offers specialized outpatient services for clients who have experienced complicated or ambiguous loss, and significant trauma. (continued on schedule o)the goal of the counseling and therapy program is to help clients understand their problems and see ways to begin solving these problems. Individual assessments are completed, and therapy is offered to children, adolescents, and adults to mitigate issues such as emotional disturbances of depression or anxiety, school or employment problems, and other personal or relationship concerns. Family therapy assists groups of people functioning as a family unit with issues such as communication, conflict, and parenting. Group therapy is topic-specific and variable. School-located counseling programs allow students to access mental health therapy while reducing…
$2,972,948 spent$2,500,531 earned by the program61% of program spendingCaregiving and aging providing care to an older adult or a younger person with special needs can become a strain for the caregiver emotionally, physically, and financially. Since 1986, Familymeans has offered a variety of services to help these unpaid family and friend caregivers effectively manage and sustain this important role while staying well themselves. We provide education, coaching and consultations, information and referral, support groups, and group and in-home respite. (continued on schedule o)caregivers receive guidance, resource connections, professional and peer support, and regular respite breaks that give them time to themselves. As a result, caregivers' stress and isolation decrease, and their coping and capability increase as measured by client outcome surveys and validated assessment tools. Recognizing the aging of our community and the increasing prevalence of dementia, we have specialized programming focused on older adults and families experiencing memory loss. We provide education and guidance to individuals who are exploring the possibilities of their older years, offer memory screenings, specialized dementia-related support groups, and meaningful…
$740,783 spent$54,780 earned by the program15% of program spendingFinancial solutions financial solutions offers comprehensive services aimed at empowering individuals and families to achieve financial stability. Our offerings include budget and debt counseling, debt management programs, and financial education. Through one-on-one sessions with certified consumer credit counselors, clients receive personalized guidance on understanding their financial situation, exploring repayment and saving strategies, creating practical budgets, and establishing long-term financial goals-all provided at no cost. (continued on schedule o)for some clients, enrollment in our debt management program enables them to repay unsecured debt while saving significant interest and fees over a fixed period. Family means does not pay their debt but designs a program in coordination with their creditors that provides them with a manageable payment plan. Our financial education programs, conducted in various settings for both students and adults, aim to impart money management skills to mitigate financial challenges. In 2025, we helped over 2,300 families through budget and debt counseling, and our debt management clients repaid nearly $5.5 millions of their unsecured debt.…
$654,591 spent$455,090 earned by the program14% of program spendingYouth development Familymeans provides free, high-quality after school and summer programming for youth ages 5 through 18 living in the mobile home city of landfall, minnesota, and the privately-owned cimarron mobile home community in lake elmo, minnesota. Both communities are home to low-income, diverse, and at-risk populations of youth who are socially and physically isolated from surrounding communities. Each site offers a children's program and a teen program. The goal of the youth development initiatives is equipping youth to learn, thrive, connect, and contribute throughout their lives. Participating youth can explore art, science, music, cooking, and technology skill-building in a free-choice, drop-in environment. Activities also include field trips, community service, sports, fitness and recreation, leadership development, and organizing community events. Help with schoolwork is available daily. The ready to be program guides teens in thoughtful preparation for postsecondary life. In 2025, 208 children and youth attended our programs. In year-end surveys, youth state that our programming connects them with caring and responsive staff, offers them new learning…
$470,392 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,838,714.
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 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $18M (+10%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 21% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of FAMILYMEANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
James Kroening
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Clark
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $601k → $1.1M.
15 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 FAMILYMEANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
FAMILYMEANS 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
50% 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 FAMILYMEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
72% of FAMILYMEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
92% of FAMILYMEANS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FAMILYMEANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILYMEANS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILYMEANS: 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 FAMILYMEANS?
- FAMILYMEANS (Minnesota) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,839,291 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($2,247,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILYMEANS have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $9,839,291 in grants to FAMILYMEANS, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILYMEANS?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,247,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILYMEANS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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