Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE
FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,399,758 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,147,143). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Friends of Saint Paul College does
Mission
Advance the mission of saint paul college by inspiring philanthropic giving to promote student success. This will be achieved through strong community awareness and engagement, partnerships with business and community-based organizations, ambitious development goals for scholarships and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scholarships, emergency aid grants, tools/books/supplies grants are provided to students as well as equipment and program support to college departments beyond their annual budget from the college.
$1,041,056 spentof which $1,041,056 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,041,056.
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 $2.7M to $3.9M (+46%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Board chair
Alix Magner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $407k → $410k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SAINT PAUL COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 SAINT PAUL COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 54% · 2019 47% · 2020 65% · 2021 40% · 2022 60% · 2023 31% — 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 FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
73% of FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $929k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE?
- FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,399,758 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,147,143). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,399,758 in grants to FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,147,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE 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 26 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