Minnesota · Nonprofit
KAIROS ALIVE
KAIROS ALIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,925 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($419,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $796k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Kairos Alive does
Mission
Kairos Alive! transforms lives through dance and story, and raises awareness of the importance of creative involvement across the lifespan for verifiable health benefits. Our Choreography of CareTM programs promote personal and community well-being through our Intergenerational Dance HallTM public participation events, our Dancing HeartTM and Kairos ClubhouseTM weekly programming, our Community Arts and WellbeingTM Residencies, and other programs. We empower intergenerational and intercultural communities through participatory dance, music and story - with elders and people with disabilities at the center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kairos Alive! empowers elders, people with disabilities, and intergenerational community to feel good, have hope, stay connected, and cultivate physical, emotional, social and cognitive health. We do this through creativity engagement programs in dance, music, story, and arts and health research learning. Our programs, which tap the creativity in everyone, were featured in the PBS documentary, Arts and the Mind, and are set to be included in a 2025 PBS documentary on caregiving. Kairos: The open moment of creativity where eternity meets the present. Kairos Alive! is a 25-year-old Minnesota nonprofit, evidence-based, arts and social impact organization based in the power of creativity engagement that promotes individual and group leadership for healthy active lifestyles. Our mission is to transform lives through dance, music, theater and the latest arts and health research learning. Our vision is to celebrate elders and people with disabilities at the center of vital intergenerational creative communities, inspiring enjoyment and well- being for all. Our intercultural programs are recognized as a place and practice for emotional and social healing. Our goals are to serve as an…
$149,888 spent$142,333 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $149,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $119k to $162k (+36%).
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: 2021 50% · 2022 29% · 2023 43% · 2024 61% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of KAIROS ALIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Elinor Genne
Executive Director
Board chair
Gary Oftedahl MD
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $149k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 KAIROS ALIVE’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
KAIROS ALIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 KAIROS ALIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 59% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 67% · 2023 65% — 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
45% of KAIROS ALIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
KAIROS ALIVE draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k 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
KAIROS ALIVE is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KAIROS ALIVE
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
64% 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 KAIROS ALIVE: 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 KAIROS ALIVE?
- KAIROS ALIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,925 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($419,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAIROS ALIVE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $795,925 in grants to KAIROS ALIVE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAIROS ALIVE?
- FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $419,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAIROS ALIVE 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing