Minnesota · Nonprofit
Keystone Community Services
Keystone Community Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,040,569 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,149,301). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Keystone Community Services does
Mission
To strengthen the capacity of individuals and families to improve their quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Keystone Basic Needs programs help families address food insecurity and build financial stability. Through our food market, Foodmobiles, food shelf home delivery program and Free Farmers Market events, Keystone is Ramsey County's largest food support network. In 2024, we opened our new Community Food Center on University Avenue in Saint Paul. This newly renovated building serves as the hub for Keystone's Basic Needs programming.2024 Results: 52,283 unduplicated individuals received support from the food shelves, Foodmobile distributions, produce distribution events and home delivery program and we distributed 3.1 million pounds of nutritious food to families in need. Community support services helped 120 households access financial assistance and crisis resources, and helped 518 families through SNAP eligibility screening and applications. 1,562 community volunteers contributed 32,589 hours of service.
$6,006,800 spentof which $4,613,815 as grants64% of program spendingKeystone Senior Services help older adults maintain health and independence while engaging in community life. Keystone provides a wide array of exercise, wellness, and social programs to help active seniors stay healthy, independent and connected. Keystone's neighborhood-based care managers work with seniors and caregivers to assess needs and coordinate needed services, including Meals on Wheels, Block Nurse services, housing stability, transportation, assistance accessing public benefits and more. Keystone Case Managers provide service coordination and advocacy to help older adults and people with disabilities reach their goals and continue living in the community. These services help seniors "age in place" staying safe, healthy and independent. 2024 Results: 2,952 unduplicated individuals received senior program services in 2024. 755 seniors received In-Home Services including Meals on Wheels, resource navigation and other services. 432 seniors participated in social, recreational and other activities at our two community centers. 1,211 seniors and people with disabilities received case management services to remain living independently in the community. 142 volunteers…
$2,013,152 spentof which $151,710 as grants$2,241,561 earned by the program21% of program spendingKeystone Youth programs help children and youth develop the social-emotional, academic and employment skills needed to succeed at school and in the community. Focusing on youth from low-income families, Keystone offers year-round afterschool programming at multiple sites: Community Kids at West 7th Community Center (K- gr. 10), the Teen Tutor program at McDonough Community Center (K-gr. 8) and the Best Buy Teen Tech Center (gr. 7-12). Keystone's Youth Employment and Training program provides work experience and career exploration for teens from low-income families. Youth employees are placed at Keystone's Express Bike Shop, Keystone program locations and outside companies. 2024 Results: 347 youth participated in Keystone youth services: 186 in afterschool programs, 87 at our Teen Tech Center and 74 participated in internships employment training. 147 volunteers provided 617 hours of service. Keystone's Youth and Family Support Specialist provides advocacy, resource connection and basic needs support for families of participating youth. In 2024 she assisted 34 families with access to public benefits and community resources.
$973,756 spentof which $19,733 as grants10% of program spendingExpress Bike Shop is a social enterprise that supports our Keystone's youth employment program. Express Bike repairs and refurbishes donated bikes, then sells them in like-new condition. Express also offers a full range of bike service, used parts and bike accessories. Youth apprentices learn about running a small business and develop job skills while working alongside professional bike mechanics. 2024 Results: In 2024, Express Bike sold 672 bikes, and received more donations and generated more revenue that any other year in the shop's 29-year history. Staff supported youth employees through a structured training curriculum.
$385,371 spentof which $1,097 as grants$364,596 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,379,079.
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.
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 $10M to $17M (+63%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 15% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Adero Riser Cobb
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $725k → $2.4M.
21 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Keystone Community Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 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
Keystone Community Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
63% 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 Keystone Community Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 64% · 2019 41% · 2020 20% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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
53% of Keystone Community Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
93% of Keystone Community Services's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like Keystone Community Services
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Keystone Community Services: 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 Keystone Community Services?
- Keystone Community Services (Minnesota) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,040,569 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,149,301). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Keystone Community Services have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $12,040,569 in grants to Keystone Community Services, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Keystone Community Services?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $2,149,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Keystone Community Services 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 106 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