Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,748 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($225,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Laura Baker School Association does
Mission
To provide housing and other services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our mission is to respect the life choices and dreams of people with developmental disabilities and help them reach their goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Oak street residential services: an intermediate care facility for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These services are licensed by the minnesota dept of health (icf-dd and supervised living facility) and the minnesota dept of human services (consolidated standards for licensed programs serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities). Services are funded primarily through medicaid and are authorized through each persons interdisciplinary team and their county of financial responsibility. Our rates are determined by the mn dept of human services. Increases/decreases are approved through the mn legislature. Currently at 27, we are licensed to serve 30 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Each person served receives services 24 hours a day and receives active treatment services to assist him/her to maintain and improve in any areas that limit his/her ability to live independently in the community. Active treatment includes individual service and program plans for each individual which are reviewed and updated monthly, quarterly and annually to measure progress toward those goals. We provide assistance to each person in the…
$6,882,852 spent$6,349,408 earned by the program100% of program spendingLaura baker school: in 2016, we closed our private school and now lease that space to the torrey pines direct primary care which is a membership based medicine practice. In addition some of the space is leased to elsa kraus, llc which offers counseling and therapy services
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,882,852.
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 $6.8M to $5.0M (−26%).
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 14% · 2021 21% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Sandra Gerdes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $2k → $211k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’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
LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
58% 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 LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 87% · 2019 74% · 2020 39% · 2021 36% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — 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
50% of LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% 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
58% of LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION'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 $470k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $656k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: 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 LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,748 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($225,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,125,748 in grants to LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 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 23 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