Minnesota · Nonprofit
GALE FORCE EDUCATION
GALE FORCE EDUCATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,250 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($290,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $306k
- Net assets
- $-26065
What Gale Force Education does
Mission
To foster opportunities for students, educators and the public to explore a future powered by renewable energy through materials development, training and student-centered events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Gale Force Education mission is to foster opportunities for students, educators and the public to explore a future powered by renewable energy through materials development, training and student-centered events.2024 is the 20th anniversary of kidwind programming, as such we planned a few events to mark this occasion.jan - march 2024 started planning the 2024 recharge academy - the recharge academy is a once-a-year teacher training event where up to 50 teachers learn about renewable energy and the opportunities it provides. Recharge was located at the university of alaska fairbanks this year in partnership with renewable energy alaska project. Continued planning the 2024 kidwind worlds in minneapolis, mn. Kidwind worlds is an international clean energy competition where over 600 students participate from all across the us, mexico and taiwan. Added david andrade as a new board member. Executed over 40 regional kidwind challenges around the us. Executed 17 educator workshops across the us in addition to two virtual training sessions continued work on the offshore wind curricula funded by njeda. Began planning and constructing an entirely new website. Contracted with central…
$1,244,957 spentof which $8,639 as grants$160,605 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,244,957.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $163k to $391k (+140%).
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 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 13% · 2023 38% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of GALE FORCE EDUCATION’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Michael Arquin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $47k → $107k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 GALE FORCE EDUCATION’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
GALE FORCE EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GALE FORCE EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of GALE FORCE EDUCATION'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k 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
GALE FORCE EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GALE FORCE EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GALE FORCE EDUCATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 GALE FORCE EDUCATION: 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 GALE FORCE EDUCATION?
- GALE FORCE EDUCATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $306,250 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($290,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GALE FORCE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $306,250 in grants to GALE FORCE EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALE FORCE EDUCATION?
- TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $290,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALE FORCE EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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