Minnesota · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES
MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,586 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($263,077). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 6,660 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,660 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funders
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio match
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 0% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 10% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES’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
MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
97% of MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 397 organizations that share them.
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Children's Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman J Stupp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tsfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Selfless Love Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Steps Kentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Herman H Nettelroth Fund Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parentchild Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES: 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 MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES?
- MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,586 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($263,077). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $297,586 in grants to MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES?
- THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $263,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES 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 3funders 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