Minnesota · Nonprofit
GLOBAL MINNESOTA
GLOBAL MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,420,009 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,344,850). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Global Minnesota does
Mission
Global Minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. We are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and courage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
World affairs events are the public face of Global Minnesota. This program provides unique and diverse opportunities to go beyond international headlines, spark cultural conversations, and connect audiences with some of the worlds foremost experts. This past year, Global Minnesota hosted nearly 80 public events ranging from presentations by visiting ambassadors and high-level diplomats, to cultural activities and panel presentations on current events. These events also provide international access, insights, and global brand exposure to minnesota companies, with 13 dedicated corporate events in 2024-25. These activities informed over 8,400 participants across minnesota on a variety of international relations, policy, and cultural topics.
$424,318 spent$40,229 earned by the program34% of program spendingProfessional exchanges connect emerging leaders from around the world to minnesotans for cultural and professional exchanges. Global Minnesota brings together local experts and participating visitors to share best practices and forge connections across continents. Global Minnesota serves as the states premier coordinator for the u.s. Department of states international visitor leadership program and partners with public and private institutions to create custom professional exchange opportunities. This year, professional exchanges program hosted nearly 300 meetings with 280 local professional resources.
$388,657 spent$15,059 earned by the program32% of program spendingK-12 education programs support minnesota educators and students in their efforts to learn more about the world and develop the knowledge, skills, and curiosity necessary for success in todays global society. Throughout the school year, Global Minnesota brought 34 international visitors from 24 countries to expand global education in minnesota classrooms. Across over 150 separate visits, global educators sparked the global curiosity of over 2,800 children. At the high school level, the academic worldquest knowledge competition engaged teams from schools around the metro area and greater minnesota. Global Minnesota also continued a nearly 75-year tradition of welcoming international students in minnesota by providing 35 cultural, social, and professional events to over 1,200 international students studying at 28 colleges and universities across the state.
$286,841 spent$347 earned by the program23% of program spendingDiscussion groups are based on the foreign policy associations great decisions program and offer opportunities across the state to explore the years most important issues and foreign policy topics. They provide high quality, nonpartisan information and bring together friends, colleagues, and neighbors who share a passion or curiosity for global issues. Global Minnesota coordinates nearly 30 groups located across the state. Thousands of minnesotans engage in these conversations with more than two dozen local expert speakers which Global Minnesota provides to help enrich the discussion experience.
$133,439 spent$11,881 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,233,255.
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 $1.9M to $1.7M (−10%).
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 15% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 19% · 2024 20% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GLOBAL MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Ross Wilson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $138k → $388k.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $734k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GLOBAL MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
GLOBAL MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 GLOBAL MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 79% · 2019 74% · 2020 40% · 2021 58% · 2022 64% · 2023 59% — 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
67% of GLOBAL MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
GLOBAL MINNESOTA draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k 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
GLOBAL MINNESOTA's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GLOBAL MINNESOTA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- Department of State$42k
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 GLOBAL MINNESOTA
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 GLOBAL MINNESOTA: 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 GLOBAL MINNESOTA?
- GLOBAL MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,420,009 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,344,850). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,420,009 in grants to GLOBAL MINNESOTA, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL MINNESOTA?
- GLOBAL TIES US is the largest funder on record, with $1,344,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL MINNESOTA 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 39 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