Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS
MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $-70274
What Minnesota Brownfields does
Mission
The mission of Minnesota Brownfields is to promote, through education, research and partnerships, the efficient cleanup and reuse of contaminated land as a means of generating economic growth, strengthening communities and enabling sustainable land use development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hosted forums and education programs on brownfield redevelopment including an epa brownfield grant lunch and learn, tour of a brownfields site, grant writing workshop, mpca guidance event, emerging developers workshop and the state of brownfields event. These events were held in person.
$18,798 spent$53,020 earned by the program28% of program spendingHosted a rescape gala to celebrate projects of redevelopment sites. This event was in person at the 1893 at the historic grain belt office.
$31,474 spent$44,025 earned by the program46% of program spendingHennepin county - comanaged a grant program to nonprofit developers which funds smaller brownfield assessments activity in the hennepin county.
$17,918 spentof which $3,900 as grants$26,527 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,190.
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.
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 $153k to $361k (+137%).
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.
41% of MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 BROWNFIELDS’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
MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% — 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
100% of MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS is better cushioned than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS
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
27% 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 BROWNFIELDS: 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 BROWNFIELDS?
- MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $178,000 in grants to MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA BROWNFIELDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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