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FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC

FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,046 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$154k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$147k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Friends of Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Inc does

Mission

Education & participation for youth & general public relative to environmental activities at national wildlife refuge .

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Environmental education for youth & schools

    $92,095 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,095.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2018 Revenue 73 ($59k) Expenses 177 ($41k) Net assets 118 ($122k)2019 Revenue 48 ($39k) Expenses 260 ($60k) Net assets 98 ($102k)2021 Revenue 112 ($91k) Expenses 475 ($109k) Net assets 103 ($107k)2022 Revenue 157 ($128k) Expenses 413 ($95k) Net assets 135 ($140k)2023 Revenue 155 ($126k) Expenses 569 ($131k) Net assets 131 ($136k)2024 Revenue 189 ($154k) Expenses 605 ($139k) Net assets 142 ($147k)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (189)Expenses (605)Net assets (142)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $107k to $140k (+31%).

$105k
$125k
$108k
$107k
$140k
$136k
$147k
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

48% of FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’17
$19k
’18
−$20k
’19
−$18k
’21
$33k
’22
−$5k
’23
$15k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $72.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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 TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC.

38%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 70% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

17% of FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

70% of FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.

ND
MN
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

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

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC?
FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,046 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $79,046 in grants to FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TAMARAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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