Minnesota · Nonprofit
GARY CARES
GARY CARES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,800 to it, the largest being DEKKO FOUNDATION INC ($130,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Gary Cares does
Mission
Our goal is *To assist where we can. *Lead where we have to. *Make a way where life situations have grid locked the ability of our community to move forward.We will do this by *Honoring our community with efforts to help make it an even better place to live, work and play, while showing respect for all the people of the community. *by working to the goal of our mission by defining needs and working to fulfill them. *Embracing the entire Gary community with compassion for sharing our feeling for he mission.We receive and distribute funds to area school, communities and organizaitons that have community improvement or betterment programs and projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Class of Activity: Community Betterment - Providing postage for books mailed monthly to children under the age of five in Norman County, Minnesota. Grantee's Name:Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryGrantee's Address: 111 Dollywood Lane, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863-4113Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $4,153.28
$4,153 spentof which $4,153 as grants4% of program spendingClass of Activity: Youth Philanthropy addressing the changing needs of our community in an innovative and ever transforming society with financial assistance, grants and scholarships to individuals and organizations in Norman County, Minnesota.Grantee's Name:Shock & AweGrantee's Address: PO Box 61, Ada, MN 56510Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: Grant Recipients - Current $27,391 Scholarship Recipients: $1,000 Community Project Color Run Award/Cancer Society: $485.09 TOTAL AMOUNT GIVEN: $28,876.09
$28,876 spentof which $28,876 as grants27% of program spendingClass of Activity: Facilitate charitable contributions through annual charity drive by township in Norman County, Minnesota.Grantee's Name:One Fund DriveGrantee's Address: PO Box 66, Gary, MN 56545Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: Benedictine Living Ada: $645Borup Community Club: $502Flom Community Club: $73Gary Community Club: $1,711Halstad Community Club: $106Twin Valley Community Club: $553Dolly Parton Library: $1,585Fire Department Ada, MN: $1,745Fire Department Borup, MN: $655Fire Department Fertile, MN: $688Fire Department Gary, MN: $7,538Fire Department Halstad, MN: $1,731Fire Department Hendrum, MN: $453.50Fire Department Perley, MN: $500.50Fire Department Shelly, MN: $473Fire Department Twin Valley, MN: $2,080Gary Cares Foundation: $2,035Halstad Living Center: $440Hospice of the RRV: $3,130Laurel Capistran Murphy Fund: $404Norman County Development Activities Center: $1,823Norman County Historical Society: $1,589Norman County Sheriff Canine Unit: $1,994Norman County Victim Assistance: $1,026NW Minnesota Aussie Rescue: $2,856REACH: $621Rescue County EMS: $674Rescue Squad Gary, MN: $7,422Rescue Squad Halstad, MN: $1,165Rescue Squad Hendrum, MN: $407.50Rescue Squad…
$51,360 spentof which $51,360 as grants48% of program spendingClass of Activity: Gary Cares Community Betterment Accomplishments - Providing financial assistance, awards and designated grants for local community projects, schools and organizations.Grantee's Name: Gary Fitness CenterGrantee's Address: Thorpe Street, Gary, MN 56545Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $7,000 (Equipment Fund)Grantee's Name: Gary Rescue SquadGrantee's Address: 97 Thorpe St, Gary, MN 56584Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $10,000Grantee's Name: Community Projects-One Fund SupportGrantee's Address: PO Box 66, Gary, MN 56545Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $675.81 Grantee's Name: City of Gary Zombie Run Grantee's Address: PO Box 104, Gary, MN 56545Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $30Grantee's Name: Gary Fire Department AwardGrantee's Address: PO Box 104, Gary, MN 56545Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $3,250Grantee's Name: Boy Scouts of America - Troop #655Operating under Northern Lights CouncilGrantee's Address: Local Chapter, Twin Valley, MN 56584Grantee's Relationship: NoneAmount Given: $2,500TOTAL AMOUNT GIVEN: $23,455.81
$23,456 spentof which $23,456 as grants22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,845.
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 $37k to $69k (+89%).
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.
100% of GARY CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 GARY CARES’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
GARY CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
31% 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 GARY CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 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
GARY CARES draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
GARY CARES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GARY CARES
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.
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GARY CARES: 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 GARY CARES?
- GARY CARES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,800 to it, the largest being DEKKO FOUNDATION INC ($130,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARY CARES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $190,800 in grants to GARY CARES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARY CARES?
- DEKKO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARY CARES 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 3 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