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Leech Lake Legacy

Leech Lake Legacy (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,046 to it, the largest being THE BABINSKI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$189k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$802k
Net assets
$688k
9/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Leech Lake Legacy does

Mission

Animal welfare organization serving the residents of Leech Lake Reservation and surrounding communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Surrender and Transport: To reduce the number of animals (primarily cats and dogs) by accepting surrenders, caring for them, placing them with and transporting them to partner shelters and rescues. 2320 animals were placed and transported in 2025, of which 1162 were surrenders to Leech Lake Legacy

    $67,529 spent$11,176 earned by the program
    42% of program spending
  2. Spay/Neuter: To reduce the number of unwanted animals (primarily cats and dogs), and to improve the health of companion and community animals by providing low cost spay/neuter services. 171 surgeries provided by Leech Lake Legacy in 2025, plus approximately 62 additional surgeries arranged for with other entities.

    $47,012 spent$4,160 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Wellness: To improve the quality of life of owned, community, and surrendered animals (primarily cats and dogs) by providing low-cost wellness exams, services, vaccines, preventatives, and treatments of illnesses and injuries. 465 wellness visits provided by Leech Lake Legacy in 2025.

    $38,624 spent$8,227 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  4. Medical expense and emergency

    $8,605 spent$380 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,770.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($188k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($160k)2018 Revenue 94 ($176k) Expenses 129 ($181k) Net assets 97 ($155k)2019 Revenue 112 ($211k) Expenses 137 ($191k) Net assets 109 ($174k)2020 Revenue 131 ($247k) Expenses 133 ($186k) Net assets 147 ($235k)2021 Revenue 101 ($189k) Expenses 136 ($191k) Net assets 146 ($233k)2022 Revenue 80 ($150k) Expenses 143 ($200k) Net assets 114 ($183k)2023 Revenue 373 ($700k) Expenses 145 ($202k) Net assets 426 ($680k)2024 Revenue 92 ($174k) Expenses 125 ($175k) Net assets 425 ($679k)2025 Revenue 101 ($189k) Expenses 129 ($180k) Net assets 431 ($688k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (129)Net assets (431)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $383k to $824k (+115%).

$169k
$164k
$184k
$391k
$383k
$824k
$807k
$790k
$792k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of Leech Lake Legacy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
−$5k
’18
$19k
’19
$61k
’20
−$2k
’21
−$51k
’22
$498k
’23
−$1k
’24
$9k
’25
9.6
months of
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.

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Listed668866666
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·00020020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $27k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Leech Lake Legacy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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

Leech Lake Legacy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

29% 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 Leech Lake Legacy.

62%
largest funder
76%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 29% · 2020 54% · 2021 49% · 2022 91% · 2023 37% — 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

30% of Leech Lake Legacy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Leech Lake Legacy draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 10 states in all.

ND
MN
IL
SD
CA
UT
CO
AZ
TN
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Leech Lake Legacy is better cushioned than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Leech Lake Legacy receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

Federal$15k
grants $15kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$15k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Leech Lake Legacy

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Leech Lake Legacy: 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 Leech Lake Legacy?
Leech Lake Legacy (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,046 to it, the largest being THE BABINSKI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Leech Lake Legacy have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $802,046 in grants to Leech Lake Legacy, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Leech Lake Legacy?
THE BABINSKI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Leech Lake Legacy 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 21 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