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MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY
MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY (Minnesota) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,317,620 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,925,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy does
Mission
The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean energy and climate: mcea's climate team strives to achieve equitable, economy-wide ghg reductions that will exceed both the amount and timelines in minnesota's next generation energy act and 100% carbon free by 2040 law, while encouraging equitable community and institutional resilience to adapt to unavoidable climate change. Mcea advocates for state-level strategies at the legislature, agencies, and courts that maximize reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from all sources, including transportation, electricity, residential, commercial, industrial, and agriculture. Mcea's strategy includes long-term development of modern and sustainable energy sources for minnesota and shifting away fossil fuel use to reduce carbon pollution. To support this goal, mcea serves as legal counsel for several minnesota clean energy organizations.
$1,165,913 spent$804,991 earned by the program39% of program spendingNortheast minnesota program: this program works to protect the land, water, and people of northeastern minnesota, and to promote a safe and healthy future for all northeastern minnesotans. Mcea works to protect northeastern minnesota communities and waters from mining pollution, particularly sulfide mining pollution, by holding state agencies accountable in permitting and enforcement processes. Mcea also works to protect and enhance northeastern minnesota lands, forests, and biodiversity, especially for climate resilience. This program is designed to maintain a strong connection to northeast minnesota communities most affected by historic pollution, and build bridges to new partners, including those with whom our views may not always align.
$571,656 spent19% of program spendingWater quality: mcea's water quality program focuses on protecting minnesota's greatest natural resource and economic asset: its water. Minnesotans rely on our water for drinking, recreation, travel, a wide variety of economic activity, and well-being. Mcea works to protect surface and groundwater by securing more effective controls on agricultural runoff and pollution. Mcea partners with communities to protect local drinking water sources from a wide range of threats that undermine public health. Mcea also acts as a watchdog to assure that our state agencies are fulfilling their duties regulating sources of pollution and enforcing the law.
$680,240 spent23% of program spendingHealthy communities: environmental harms fall more heavily on some communities that are historically and disproportionately affected by environmental impacts and pollution. In these areas, environmental laws are often ignored or enforced in such a way to protect polluters, not the community. Mcea's advocacy focuses on building and protecting healthy communities for all. The healthy communities program leverages mcea's legal skills, organizational resources, and access to decision-makers to build power for communities and fight for environmental justice alongside our partners. Mcea is proud to have dedicated and general funding to support environmental justice work from its funders, and integrates environmental justice principles into every aspect of its work.
$534,615 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,952,424.
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.
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 $4.5M to $6.1M (+37%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% 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
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
Kathryn Hoffman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $404k → $1.9M.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 39% · 2020 26% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% — 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
63% of MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
54% of MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: 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 CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY?
- MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY (Minnesota) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,317,620 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,925,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $11,317,620 in grants to MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY 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 65 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