Minnesota · Nonprofit
LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,865,000 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($10,650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Leadingage Minnesota Foundation does
Mission
The foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. The focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing leadership for aging services organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ontrack nursing assistant training: the foundation operates ontrack, an asynchronous online nursing assistant training program. This program addresses the delays and barriers in accessing cna training, increases the quality of the curriculum and training, and meets all testing requirements. In 2023, 2,052 students were trained through ontrack.
$788,040 spent$1,181,844 earned by the program48% of program spendingConnected communities: supported by funding from the margaret a. Cargill philanthropies (macp) the foundation continued its work on the connected communities for healthy aging project. Three rural pilots were supported in order to create integrated care systems across aging services, healthcare, and community supports. Assistance was provided to plan, implement, and evaluate outcomes. Objectives included: convening and advancing local and collaborative whole system, whole person approaches to serving seniors in community; experimenting and improving care of medicare advantage enrollees in a local health plan in coordination with providers of primary care, acute- and post-acute care, home care, and community-based services; connecting consumers to local resources for healthier aging; implementing effective workforce strategies to support this collaborative model.
$537,598 spentof which $156,175 as grants33% of program spendingOther program services:provided additional mental health supports to caregivers through a partnership with winona state university and funded by a new grant from the mn department of health.funded caregiver training on abuse prevention.developed new resources for providers to explore available technology to improve senior care outcomes and create workforce efficiencies.engaged in research to identify strategies to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices in long-term care settings.funded the development of trained medication aide (tma) curriculum to address the acute shortage of tma's in minnesota.
$253,333 spent16% of program spendingWorkforce: the foundation provided workforce grants to many senior living communities to support them in recruiting and retaining directcare workforce employees.
$50,700 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,629,671.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.1M to $8.0M (+98%).
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 7% · 2022 0% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kari Thurlow
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.8M.
Left out of every figure on this page: $825k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Leadingage Minnesota). These are real filings, and they are not money LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION’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
LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Leadingage Minnesota · exempt
- Leadingage Minnesota Political Action Committee · exempt
- Leadingage Minnesota Solutions · corp_trust
- McCa · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: 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 LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION?
- LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,865,000 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($10,650,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,865,000 in grants to LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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