Minnesota · Nonprofit
Living Earth Center
Living Earth Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,225 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $252k
What Living Earth Center does
Mission
Living Earth Center brings people of all traditions together to cultivate common ground and seek justice through education encounter and community agriculture.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Garden Consulting - Living Earth Center LEC works with community partners to design implement and manage community gardens on site at partners location.
$14,906 spent$7,323 earned by the program9% of program spendingEvents and Programming - This includes our annual Earth Conference a variety of educational classes offered throughout the year including our Seed to Sauce Youth Gardening Program Summer and Winter Solstice Celebrations Seed and Food Swaps and more.
$69,309 spent$4,783 earned by the program40% of program spendingLiving Earth Center Community Garden - LECs 2 acre community garden is home to over 100 gardeners and their families who rent plots to grow their own produce. We have a Gardening Scholarship Program so that no one is turned away for inability to pay. We also offer plots to other community partners interested in having a group plot in the garden free of charge through our Garden Partnership Program.
$26,671 spentof which $1,120 as grants$3,822 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services include: Produce Donation Program and Emerging Growers Program. The $440 listed as income is from Emerging Grower fee payments
$60,846 spent$440 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $171,732.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $176k to $243k (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 12% · 2026 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Living Earth Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Laura Marsala Peterson
Executive Director
Board chair
Amanda Quam
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35 → $5k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Living Earth Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
Living Earth Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Living Earth Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Living Earth Center's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
Living Earth Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 51 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 51 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Living Earth Center
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Living Earth Center: 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 Living Earth Center?
- Living Earth Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,225 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Living Earth Center have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $66,225 in grants to Living Earth Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Earth Center?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Earth Center 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), and the filings of 8 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