Minnesota · Nonprofit
GIVE US WINGS
GIVE US WINGS (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($226,975). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $535k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Give US Wings does
Mission
Encourage support and partner with people living in extreme poverty in uganda as they transform their lives and become self-sufficient through greater access to quality health care education and economic opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family to family sponsorship program: 83 families in uganda are partnered with us sponsors. The ugandan families receive several benefits that help them achieve self-sufficiency. We pay the tuition and school fees for the youngest child in the family usually a girl to be enrolled in a high-quality boarding school. The family receives health insurance through our clinic. The parents and guardians participate in educational seminars that cover topics such as positive parenting child nutrition childrens rights etc.
$237,335 spentof which $184,638 as grants55% of program spendingSt. Johns kayoro health center: our clinic provided basic medical services to over 24,000 people in 2025. The clinic focuses on maternal and child health immunizations family planning hiv testing and many other services. Regular health outreaches are done in rural settings for people who cannot reach the clinic.
$142,401 spentof which $110,782 as grants33% of program spendingEconomic development program. We partner with established agricultural cooperatives to provide training in areas such as leadership, business management, and financial operations. As funds are available, we also deliver materials and equipment needed to help them grow their businesses. A strong emphasis is given to supporting women in these efforts. Our community youth skilling program enables young women who have had to drop out of school the opportunity to learn a marketable skill and start a small business of her own.
$51,782 spentof which $40,284 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,518.
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 2021 to 2022, from $126k to $51k (−59%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of GIVE US WINGS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Peter Carlson
Executive director
Board chair
George Kinkead
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $67k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 GIVE US WINGS’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
GIVE US WINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 GIVE US WINGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 67% · 2020 57% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 55% — 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
75% of GIVE US WINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
71% of GIVE US WINGS'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 $135k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GIVE US WINGS's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GIVE US WINGS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIVE US WINGS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GIVE US WINGS?
- GIVE US WINGS (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($226,975). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIVE US WINGS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $468,545 in grants to GIVE US WINGS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVE US WINGS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $226,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVE US WINGS 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.
Play a game about who funds Give US Wings →
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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing