Minnesota · Nonprofit
IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION
IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,171,206 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($623,640). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $539k
What Irreducible Grace Foundation does
Mission
Creating Safe Spaces and Healing Opportunities with Youth of Color. Activities: bi-weekly wellness programming, self-care Sundays, and sharing trauma healing practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We offered out of school time programming for over 2,000 participants through weekly sessions from life skills to healing practices. Experienced participants went on to get certified training and are now teaching at our center. We also expanded our garden program to provide community access to fresh vegetables.
$560,460 spent$93,906 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $560,460.
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 $826k to $1.9M (+130%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Chief executive
Darlene Fry
Executive Director
Board chair
Stacey Gray-Akyea
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $120k → $462k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
67% 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 IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 54% · 2021 74% · 2022 43% · 2023 61% — 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
30% of IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
51% of IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IRREDUCIBLE GRACE 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.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: 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 IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION?
- IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,171,206 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($623,640). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,171,206 in grants to IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $623,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRREDUCIBLE GRACE 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.
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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 22 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