Minnesota · Nonprofit
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,359 to it, the largest being MARY'S PENCE ($18,750). 6 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 FY2025
- $212k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $300k
What League of Women Voters of Minneapolis Inc does
Mission
The League of Women Voters of Minneapolis, Inc. encourages all citizens to play an informed and active roll in their community and government and works to influence public policy through education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Voter Services: Builds non-partisan civic participation in the democratic process by registering voters, hosing numerous candidate debates and presenting educational forums on important election issues such as pending initiatives and referendums. Provides non-partisan written election information. Targes information to new citizens and low voter turnout neighborhoods.
$35,892 spent50% of program spendingOutreach: Provides citizen education to improve public policy. Research balanced, in-depth reports on pressing local issues. Reports used by community organizations to promote systemic change for community improvement. Reports have included violence prevention, racism, housing, public education, the structure of government and sex trafficking.
$14,357 spent20% of program spendingMember and Community Education: Prepares all citizens and potential citizens to play an informed and active role in government and community. Provides workshops, educational forums and partners with community and neighborhood participation groups. Provides information to the general public via staff, newsletter, website and members.
$10,768 spent15% of program spendingAdvocacy: Advocates for reasonable solutions to the most pressing problems in the community that have government solutions. Advocates from positions established by thorough study, discussion and member consensus.
$10,767 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,784.
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 2024 to 2025, from $218k to $302k (+38%).
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.
85% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $9k.
4 of 9 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC’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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 91% · 2022 70% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC: 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC?
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,359 to it, the largest being MARY'S PENCE ($18,750). 6 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $63,359 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC?
- MARY'S PENCE is the largest funder on record, with $18,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNEAPOLIS INC 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 9 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