Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC
FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,945 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($307,645). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $537k
What Friends of Linden Hill Inc does
Mission
Perserving and sharing the history and spirit of the musser/weyerhaeuser estate on the mississippi river.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization has been continuing in its work to preserve and care for the structures at linden hill, addressing various restoration and preservation efforts. This year the dedication to grant writing paid off with the ability to make physical progress on the barn, varriage house and greenhouse exterior rehabilitation work. On top of this we addressed numerous small scale maintenance needs, made additional repairs to the pavilion, and continued work toward the pipe organ restoration.
$244,497 spent$182,642 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe organization remains committed to hosting a variety of events, educational programs, and fundraisers which both share and sustain the estate, maintianing the delicate balance of our two fold mission. Bringing back lumberjack days as an education program for our area 3rd graders was well received. A new fundraiser, 'lumberjack fest' was created and replaced a previous annual event that was struggling.
The organization has come back to place of operations in line with what was exerpeinced prior to the struggles of 2020 and the covid-19 pandemic. The rentals for both lodging and weddings have risen back to a place similar to 2019 and our board, volunteers and staff have worked hard to see success through fundraisers and bar service.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $244,497.
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 $233k to $545k (+134%).
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 10% · 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Julia Mueller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $21k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL 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
FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 27% · 2022 100% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL 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. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL 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 FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC?
- FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,945 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($307,645). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $419,945 in grants to FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL INC?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $307,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LINDEN HILL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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