Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK
MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,497 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($206,345). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Minnesota Adoption Resource Network does
Mission
To find and strengthen minnesota adoptive, foster care and kinship families by providing 1) awareness about the need for families for minnesota children; 2) information and referral to those interested in becoming adoptive, foster or kinship families; 3) education relevant to adoption, foster, and kinship families and professsionals; and 4) individualized support, guidance and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Zero kids waiting (zkw) program - the gateway to information about adoption, foster care, and kinship care in minnesota. Provides statewide information about adoption, foster care, and kinship care based on individual needs. Raises public awareness and advocacy through community events and partnerships with local news and print media. Creates online features for children in minnesota who need an adoptive family immediately. During fiscal year 2025 this program had 647,232 contacts where information and referral were provided, and 112 children registered on the state adoption exchange were placed with adoptive families. Education for foster, adoptive & kinship parents, and professionals: foster adopt minnesota supports families by providing trainings on mental health, the effects of trauma, and common challenges for adopted children and those in foster care and kinship placements. Fam is a strong resource for professionals who serve youth connected with the child welfare system. Training offered includes topics such as supporting birth family connections, working with lgbtqai+ youth, trauma, attachment, identity, and diversity. During fiscal year 2025 the education program provided…
$3,573,338 spent$5,790 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,573,338.
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.
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 $316k to $501k (+59%).
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 92% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 92% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 95% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Rachel Walstad
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $42k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 56% · 2021 73% · 2022 67% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK'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 $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k 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.
Organizations like MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK
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
98% 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 MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK: 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 MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK?
- MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,497 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($206,345). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $280,497 in grants to MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $206,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA ADOPTION RESOURCE NETWORK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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