Minnesota · Nonprofit
HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS
HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,837 to it, the largest being INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($11,837). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Hackensack Game Changers does
Mission
Provide project teams for the City of Hackensack MN to renovate, rejuvenate and beautify the town.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Snowflake Team: After MNDot invested in the reconstruction of the state highway that runs through town, this team raised money to add LED snowflake lights and banners on the new lamp posts. They had a starting balance of $3,742, raised $10,234 and spent $26,814 on the lights & banners. This left them a negative balance of $-12,838. They will continue their fundraising efforts to pay this back to the general fund. Serves all travelers on State 371.
$26,814 spent$10,234 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe Resilient Housing Team has been working since 2022 to bring housing to town. They purchased land in 2023 using a loan from Cass County Economic Development. They received a grant from the Blandin Foundation for $150,000, $101,871 of which was put towards the land loan. The interest, taxes and insurance on the land are their only expenses for '25 totaling $9718. They also received a $10,000 grant from the Initiative Foundation for a weatherization program and donated $45,000 from the Blandin Grant to the Hackensack Local Housing Trust Fund to provide match dollars for the upcoming weatherization program. They had a starting balance of $8,555 and an ending balance of $11,965. No program activity has commenced yet, so no persons have benefited yet on these projects.
$54,718 spentof which $160,000 as grants$160,000 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe sign team raised money in previous years to add a welcome sign on the south side of town, so they started the year with $6851. A new welcome sign for the north side and wayfinding signs were the projects for '25 so $3800 was raised which included a $800 grant from the Hackensack Lakes Area Community Foundation. The sign and installation expense was $8783 leaving $1868 remaining in their account. Appreciated by all who drive by on State 371.
$8,783 spentof which $800 as grants$3,800 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe remaining teams are described in Schedule O
$21,517 spentof which $10,750 as grants$33,296 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,832.
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 $58k to $297k (+408%).
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.
100% of HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Linnea Dietrich
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS’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
HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS.
“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
92% of HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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
HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS?
- HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,837 to it, the largest being INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($11,837). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,837 in grants to HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS.
- Who is the largest funder of HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS?
- INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HACKENSACK GAME CHANGERS 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.
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 2 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