Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKES AREA HEROES
LAKES AREA HEROES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BAME FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Lakes Area Heroes does
Mission
Lakes Area Heroes provides financial assistance and community support to first responders and their families during times of hardship crisis injury illness or loss. The organization raises funds through community events sponsorships and donations to support local fire EMS law enforcement and other emergency service personnel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Lakes Area Heroes provides financial and community support to first responders and their families in times of need. In 2024 the organization donated more than $15,000 directly to first responders within a four-county area. Lakes Area Heroes also delivered food and water to firefighters during active fire events and partnered with local nonprofits to provide volunteer support. The organization collaborated with the Sheriffs Department to raise $47,000 for a deputy diagnosed with cancer. Additional assistance included helping an EMS technician secure water and sewer services for their home and providing rental assistance to an officer injured in the line of duty. These efforts directly supported first responders facing financial medical and personal hardships furthering the organizations mission of serving those who serve the community.
$15,309 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,309.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $16k to $31k (+96%).
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.
88% of LAKES AREA HEROES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LAKES AREA HEROES’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LAKES AREA HEROES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LAKES AREA HEROES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,931 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LAKES AREA HEROES
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKES AREA HEROES: 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 LAKES AREA HEROES?
- LAKES AREA HEROES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being BAME FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKES AREA HEROES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to LAKES AREA HEROES.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKES AREA HEROES?
- BAME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKES AREA HEROES 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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