Minnesota · Nonprofit
Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation
Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $216 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($216). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $216
- Net assets
- $11M
What Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation does
Mission
We empower our employees to support older adults in achieving fulfilling lifestyles, while maintaining responsible stewardship of our resources. Our five core values are: Caring, Respect, Collaboration, Innovation, and Stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Red Cedar Canyon was purchased on September 9, 2024. Windmill Pond Memory Care (part of Windmill Ponds) was purchased on July 1, 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Emerald Village was sold in March 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In FY2025, VPC served over 1,000 residents and employed a staff of over 750. The organization owned ten senior living communities, offering independent living, assisted living, care suites, and memory care across three states: Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. VPC owns and directly manages all of the location.(Continued on Schedule O)VPC was incorporated in 1997 as a nonprofit organization for charitable purposes under its original name Governmental & Educational Assistance Corporation. In 2025, VPC provided over $4.4 million in charitable support to qualifying residents in various public assistance programs. VPC is dedicated to the highest possible quality, striving to provide innovative and relevant services through collaborative partnerships; making a significant difference in the lives of those we serve and their loved ones. For more information, visit www.vistaprairie.org. The Vision of Vista Prairie Communities is to continually evolve to enrich the lives of those we are called to serve and to meet the growing needs of the greater community. * Vista Prairie at Brentwood (Rice Lake, WI) 47 unit assisted living and memory care.* Vista Prairie at Copperleaf (Willmar, MN) 86 unit…
$46,356,566 spent$55,345,356 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $46,356,566.
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 2023 to 2024, from $70M to $91M (+30%).
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 9% · 2022 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Morris E Knopf
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $88 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216 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
Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- North Pointe-GEAC LLC · disregarded
- Fieldcrest-GEAC LLC · disregarded
- Garnette Gardens-GEAC LLC · disregarded
- St Clarence-GEAC LLC · disregarded
- Windmill Ponds-GEAC LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation: 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 Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation?
- Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $216 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($216). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $216 in grants to Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $216 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Governmental and Educational Assistance Corporation 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 1 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