Minnesota · Nonprofit
Lyndale Neighborhood Association
Lyndale Neighborhood Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,287 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $587k
What Lyndale Neighborhood Association does
Mission
The Lyndale Neighborhood Association (LNA) empowers residents to shape their community by fostering a safe, vibrant, and sustainable neighborhood. Our work enhances public spaces and improves the quality of life for those in and around Lyndale, one of Minneapolis most diverse neighborhoods, home to over 7,250 people from a range of backgrounds, incomes, and places of origin. LNA engaged hundreds of volunteers, who contributed thousands of hours to community projects spanning education, sustainability, and events. Through these efforts, LNA continues to build an inclusive, connected, and resilient community, ensuring all residents have opportunities to engage and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education & Outreach LNAs adult education programs served hundreds of students across five sites, offering courses in adult English, computer basics, and drivers license permit education, including a new adult education to teach targeted classes in Spanish to better serve our Latino neighbors. In 2025, we partnered with Hosmer Library to host our first Computer Basics course entirely in Spanish and also hosted our first fully Spanish language Drivers License Permit Education course at our office. This allowed us to engage with our Latino neighbors in new ways and share information in places that were convenient and comfortable in their native language. Community Engagement LNA conducted outreach or events at 37 different locations in and around the Lyndale neighborhood.These were focused on education, engagement, environment, housing, and community safety. This included three workshops for Horn Towers residents attending our adult education classes Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Fair Housing, a Hennepin County Child and Teen Check Ups, and MN DHS held a health insurance workshop. A total of 24 Horn Tower residents attended these trainings to learn about programs that impact them and…
$360,089 spent$15,518 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $360,089.
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 $460k to $562k (+22%).
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 53% · 2018 76% · 2019 68% · 2020 80% · 2021 89% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% · 2024 85% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Lyndale Neighborhood Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Samantha Smetana
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $26.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Lyndale Neighborhood Association’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
Lyndale Neighborhood Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 Lyndale Neighborhood Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 90% · 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
80% of Lyndale Neighborhood Association's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Lyndale Neighborhood Association runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Lyndale Neighborhood Association
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
81% 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 Lyndale Neighborhood Association: 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 Lyndale Neighborhood Association?
- Lyndale Neighborhood Association (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,287 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lyndale Neighborhood Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $208,287 in grants to Lyndale Neighborhood Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lyndale Neighborhood Association?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lyndale Neighborhood Association 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 5 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