Minnesota · Nonprofit
MAD DADS of Minneapolis
MAD DADS of Minneapolis (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,405 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($124,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAD DADS of Minneapolis's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fr Bigelow Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Youthpriseshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Takeaction Mn Education Fundlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2023 21% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of MAD DADS of Minneapolis’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $120k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MAD DADS of Minneapolis’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 18 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
MAD DADS of Minneapolis has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 MAD DADS of Minneapolis.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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
43% of MAD DADS of Minneapolis's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
67% of MAD DADS of Minneapolis's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fr Bigelow Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 120 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Youthpriseshared funderslocalportfolio matchMN · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 151 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Takeaction Mn Education Fundlocalportfolio matchMN · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Mainlocalportfolio matchMO · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Council on Foundationslocalportfolio matchMN · funds 42 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cargill Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- Minnesota Black Collective Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grotto Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Securian Financial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Target Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 104 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MAD DADS of Minneapolis
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 MAD DADS of Minneapolis: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAD DADS of Minneapolis?
- MAD DADS of Minneapolis (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $655,405 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($124,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAD DADS of Minneapolis have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $655,405 in grants to MAD DADS of Minneapolis, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAD DADS of Minneapolis?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAD DADS of Minneapolis 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing