Minnesota · Nonprofit
GREAT RIVER GREENING
GREAT RIVER GREENING (Minnesota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,378,644 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($300,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Great River Greening does
Mission
Great River Greening inspires, engages and leads local communities in conserving and caring for the land and water that enrich our lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through our on-the-ground projects, volunteer events and trainings Great River Greening works with partners and local communities to restore and maintain the biodiversity and ecological health of our lands and waters. With our ecologists and field crew, 60,000 volunteers have improved, restored, and care for 50,000 acres, planted 170,000 trees and shrubs, and removed over 18,500 acres of invasive species.
$4,454,317 spent$550,762 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,454,317.
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 $810k to $1.5M (+86%).
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 56% · 2018 52% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 64% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GREAT RIVER GREENING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Justin Maccurnin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $78k → $793k.
11 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 GREAT RIVER GREENING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
GREAT RIVER GREENING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
37% 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 GREAT RIVER GREENING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 46% · 2019 33% · 2020 42% · 2021 17% · 2022 27% · 2023 19% — 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
42% of GREAT RIVER GREENING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
61% of GREAT RIVER GREENING's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GREAT RIVER GREENING's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREAT RIVER GREENING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10.0M
- Department of the Interior$20k
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 GREAT RIVER GREENING
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
88% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT RIVER GREENING: 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 GREAT RIVER GREENING?
- GREAT RIVER GREENING (Minnesota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,378,644 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($300,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT RIVER GREENING have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $3,378,644 in grants to GREAT RIVER GREENING, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT RIVER GREENING?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT RIVER GREENING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 64 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