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INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,838 to it, the largest being KOPP FAMILY FOUNDATION ($540,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$506k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$3.8M
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Inver Hills Community College Foundation does

Mission

The Inver Hills Community College Foundation promotes inver hills community college by building partnerships with area high schools, businesses, community organizations and government agencies. We build capacity by securing financial and other resources that further the mission of the college. We assist students, faculty and staff seeking educational excellence.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarship and programmatic support: during the year the foundation funded scholarships, emergency grants, and many programmatic areas for general education for the transfer purposes and specific academic areas. The scholarship criteria support different goals. Some are used to encourage students to pursue certain courses of study while others are intended to provide an incentive for students to persist in pursuit of accomplishing their educational goals. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic merit, career goals, recommendations, and financial needs. Programmatic funds are used to support needs within the college to further educational opportunities.

    $336,600 spentof which $326,914 as grants$506,050 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $336,600.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($255k) Expenses 100 ($402k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 143 ($365k) Expenses 83 ($333k) Net assets 99 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 148 ($377k) Expenses 82 ($331k) Net assets 115 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 97 ($247k) Expenses 71 ($285k) Net assets 106 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 221 ($562k) Expenses 76 ($304k) Net assets 112 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 175 ($446k) Expenses 90 ($363k) Net assets 117 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 199 ($506k) Expenses 91 ($365k) Net assets 122 ($3.8M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (199)Expenses (91)Net assets (122)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $3.6M (+17%).

$3.2M
$3.1M
$3.6M
$3.3M
$3.5M
$3.7M
$3.8M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$147k
’19
$32k
’20
$46k
’21
−$38k
’22
$258k
’23
$83k
’24
$141k
’25
38
months of
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.

Chief executive

Kimberly Shaff

Executive director

Board chair

Susan Long

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed16181412131112
Joined·+3+3+3+2+1+4
No longer listed·175133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $203k → $218k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

55% 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 INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

38%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 49% · 2023 50% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $597k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve38.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mn State Colleges & Universitiesinver Hills Community College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,407,838 to it, the largest being KOPP FAMILY FOUNDATION ($540,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,407,838 in grants to INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
KOPP FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INVER HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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