Minnesota · Nonprofit
GOOD TROUBLE
GOOD TROUBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,975 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($276,023). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $401k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $326k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Good Trouble does
Mission
Good Trouble is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501 c 3. The organization supports educational engagement and skill development of minnesota youth ages 14 to 24. Activities are conducted with public schools, nonprofit organizations and other charitable institutions and are open to a broad and indefinite class of students. Activities focus on communication teamwork problem solving self reflection and personal responsibility in various settings. These activities are educational and support preparation for further education, employment and civic participation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Good Trouble is a youth-led charitable initiative focused on developing youth leadership, civic engagement, and systems change through relationship-based organizing and youth-adult partnership. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, while operating under fiscal sponsorship, Good Trouble engaged hundreds of young people throughout the twin cities metro area through leadership development, civic participation, youth organizing, and community-building experiences.Good Trouble worked with school communities, including north high school, camden high school, and high school for recording arts, to support student leadership development, elevate youth voice in school and civic decision-making, and strengthen youth engagement through meaningful leadership opportunities.program activities included youth leadership retreats, student listening sessions, civic engagement events, public speaking and advocacy opportunities, youth-led professional development, community convenings, and collaborative school-community initiatives. Youth participants engaged in legislative advocacy, facilitated discussions, participated in district leadership opportunities, and helped shape conversations around…
$416,885 spent$401,421 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $416,885.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $73k to $78k (+6%).
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.
87% of GOOD TROUBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GOOD TROUBLE’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
GOOD TROUBLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
88% 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 GOOD TROUBLE.
“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
100% of GOOD TROUBLE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GOOD TROUBLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GOOD TROUBLE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOOD TROUBLE: 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 GOOD TROUBLE?
- GOOD TROUBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,975 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($276,023). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOOD TROUBLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $325,975 in grants to GOOD TROUBLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD TROUBLE?
- PROPEL NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $276,023 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD TROUBLE 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 2024–2025), 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