Minnesota · Nonprofit
MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS
MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Mandatory Fun Outdoors does
Mission
Provide outdoor recreational opportunities to american veterans and their families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide outdoor recreational opportunities to american veterans and their families
$71,886 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $71,886.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $121k to $100k (−18%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
161% of MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Donald Sheldrew
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $500.
From the IRS filings of MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS’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
MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 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
91% of MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS is better cushioned than half of the 6,752 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,752 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS: 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 MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS?
- MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,600 in grants to MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS?
- MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing