Minnesota · Nonprofit
Longfellow Community Council
Longfellow Community Council (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,901 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($65,962). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $310k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $424k
What Longfellow Community Council does
Mission
Community revitalization LCCs Mission is to improve the well being of our diverse community through engagement, involvement and empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Led community engagement and neighborhood revitalization initiatives, organizing community-building events and providing information on environmental issues, business and housing development, and public safety. Matched 47 households with snow removal volunteers, hosted over 30 community events, and coordinated a neighborhood-wide garage sale featuring over 100 participating households. Provided technical assistance to community members, coordinated a door-to-door outreach campaign, and expanded strategic partnerships.
$200,963 spentof which $18,906 as grants$1,102 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,963.
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 2019 to 2020, from $245k to $443k (+80%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 57% · 2021 92% · 2022 88% · 2023 90% · 2024 91% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Longfellow Community Council’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Joel McReynolds
Executive Director
Board chair
Annie Wang
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $109k → $33.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Longfellow Community Council’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
Longfellow Community Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 Longfellow Community Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 82% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
17% of Longfellow Community Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
61% of Longfellow Community Council'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Longfellow Community Council holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Longfellow Community Council
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Longfellow Community Council: 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 Longfellow Community Council?
- Longfellow Community Council (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,901 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($65,962). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Longfellow Community Council have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $118,901 in grants to Longfellow Community Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Longfellow Community Council?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Longfellow Community Council 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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