Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES
LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,636 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($135,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $920k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $470k
- Net assets
- $562k
What Lakes Center for Youth & Families does
Mission
The mission of lakes center for youth and families (lc4yf) is to ensure the success of youth, adults and families through programming to meet the ever changing needs of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling program reached 164 clients in 2025, ranging in age from 5 to 75. We provided 2,187 sessions via telehealth, in-office sessions, and in- school sessions.
$356,498 spent$94,538 earned by the program44% of program spendingEducation engagement program reached 106 youth in chisago county, ranging in age from 5-18. We provided 348 sessions to address truancy and education disengagement.
$202,139 spent$53,604 earned by the program25% of program spendingEnrichment program reached 413 youth in 2025, ranging in age from 5 to 22. We provided 873 sessions through our youth first classes and safety camp.
$118,272 spent$31,364 earned by the program14% of program spendingIntervention program reached 230 youth in 2025, ranging in age from 5 to 18. We provided 588 sessions through classes, individual programming, and homework. Additionally, our linwood intervention program served 500 clients (duplicated).
$142,026 spent$37,663 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $818,935.
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 2023 to 2024, from $684k to $806k (+18%).
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: 2019 30% · 2020 39% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 26% · 2024 36% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Tim Cryer
Exec dir 4/2
Board chair
Renee Wagner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $9k → $94k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES’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
LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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
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 LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 58% · 2019 51% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 68% · 2023 21% — 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
67% of LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
100% of LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES: 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 CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES?
- LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $469,636 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($135,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $469,636 in grants to LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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