Minnesota · Nonprofit
HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED
HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,460 to it, the largest being ISA FOUNDATION ($58,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Headwaters Relief Organization Incorporated does
Mission
Headwaters seeks to inspire passion to serve others. We forge connections between those who are being served, the headwaters team, and the community at large. We work to ensure that every volunteer, regardless of age, background, skills, or experience feels valued and motivated to continue to serve others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Headwaters relief organization is a non-profit disaster relief collaboration of volunteers that supports the needs of families and communities after disasters. Headwaters provides public health, psychosocial support, medical services, disaster debris clean-up and rebuilding in partnership with other organizations. Their work is local, national, and international. Headwaters began as a grassroots volunteer effort providing disaster relief in 2005 in response to hurricane katrina in new orleans. Ninth ward, one of the most devastated areas of the city. Initially assisting with gutting and interior debris clean-up. As more volunteers joined in, they developed partnerships with other organizations and moved into rebuilding as well. In 2007, headwaters' volunteers comitted to long-term support of the ninth ward community where a walk-in mental health resource center was opened, which is still providing services today. Headwaters has responded to tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and man-made disasters, providing public health, psycosocial, and medical support as well as clean-up and rebuilding. Nationally, the organization has responded to disasters in more than 30…
$57,223 spentof which $3,851 as grants100% of program spendingA total of 28,974 hours were donated by headwaters' volunteers in 2024. Out of which 20,368 hours were donated by general volunteers while, a total of 6,994 hours were donated, administratively to support headwaters operations in 2024. The value of these hours is $341,658. In addition, a total of 1,332 hours were donated by the board of directors in 2024. The value of these hours is $266,400. These values are based on the individuals who donated them, their backgrounds, and the reimnursement they would have received should they have performed a similar task for compensation. This provides an aggregate total of 8,326 hours donated with a combined value of $608,058 in 2024. This support allows the organization to be funded in a non-traditional way, thereby allowing all donations to go directly in service.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,223.
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 2020 to 2021, from $25k to $130k (+419%).
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.
99% of HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $40.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED’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
HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED: 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 HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED?
- HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,460 to it, the largest being ISA FOUNDATION ($58,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $69,460 in grants to HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED?
- ISA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED 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 5 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