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Hill & Lake Press Inc

Hill & Lake Press Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,500 to it, the largest being LENFESTEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$161k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
$126k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Hill & Lake Press Inc does

Mission

Educate and inform the community

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Hill & Lake Press distributes a local neighborhood newspaper to over 15,000 households in South Minneapolis via the U.S. Mailand delivery to local businesses. The paper focuses on charitable, literary, and educational news and events within the community.The newspaper has an online presence and is funded by advertising revenue and donations.

    $101,010 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($72k)2024 Revenue 96 ($130k) Expenses 174 ($110k) Net assets 127 ($91k)2025 Revenue 119 ($161k) Expenses 200 ($127k) Net assets 175 ($126k)
202320242025
Revenue (119)Expenses (200)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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 $106k to $128k (+21%).

$90k
$106k
$128k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

53% of Hill & Lake Press Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’23
$19k
’24
$35k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Mike Erlandson

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Hill & Lake Press Inc’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

Hill & Lake Press Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 Hill & Lake Press Inc.

36%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

64% of Hill & Lake Press Inc'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Hill & Lake Press Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Hill & Lake Press Inc

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hill & Lake Press Inc: 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 Hill & Lake Press Inc?
Hill & Lake Press Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,500 to it, the largest being LENFESTEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Hill & Lake Press Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,500 in grants to Hill & Lake Press Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hill & Lake Press Inc?
LENFESTEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hill & Lake Press Inc 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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