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MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK

MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$420k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200
Net assets
$127k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Minnesota Council for Quality Dba Performance Excellence Network does

Mission

The performance excellence network (formerly the minnesota council for quality) is a non-profit that advances improvement and performance excellence. We identify strengths and improvement opportunities and build networks that bring information, resources, knowledge, and best practices to organizations, individuals, and communities desiring to improve.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Assessment:through a voluntary board of evaluators, pen provides diagnostic assessments for organizations & communities desiring to improve performance and outcomes. This program helps leaders identify and prioritize strengths and improvement opportunities, helping organizations/communities focus, align, and optimize resources. In 2023, pen conducted 4 performance excellence award assessments and 1 non-award assessment.education:pen provides training, workshops, seminars, conferences to leaders, professionals, and the general public in all sectors of the economy (business, education, healthcare, nonprofit, and governmental agencies). Education focuses on best practices and methods to improve individual, organizational, and/or community performance. Education also includes training for non-profit board of evaluators. In 2023, pen trained over 35 evaluators and trained/served over 2500 leaders/professionals (nearly 225 in workshops/seminars, nearly 350 in conferences, and over 2000 in monthly breakfast/webinars).recognition:pen recognizes organizations in minnesota, south dakota, and north dakota that are using quality and continuous improvement principles to improve outcomes. Pen…

    $354,005 spent$136,176 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $354,005.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($418k) Expenses 100 ($474k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 103 ($430k) Expenses 95 ($451k) Net assets 39 ($13k)2019 Revenue 107 ($449k) Expenses 95 ($450k) Net assets 36 ($12k)2020 Revenue 99 ($413k) Expenses 78 ($371k) Net assets 164 ($55k)2021 Revenue 97 ($404k) Expenses 64 ($304k) Net assets 464 ($154k)2022 Revenue 91 ($380k) Expenses 86 ($407k) Net assets 382 ($127k)2023 Revenue 100 ($420k) Expenses 88 ($416k) Net assets 364 ($121k)2024 Revenue 100 ($420k) Expenses 87 ($414k) Net assets 382 ($127k)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (87)Net assets (382)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $74k to $159k (+113%).

$75k
$38k
$51k
$74k
$159k
$132k
$125k
$131k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$56k
’17
−$21k
’18
−$917
’19
$42k
’20
$100k
’21
−$27k
’22
$4k
’23
$6k
’24
2.1
months of
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

Chace Anderson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed11141410109910
Joined·+5+0+0+0+3+1+1
No longer listed·2040410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $0contracts $10k
17
18
Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK?
MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK.
Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE NETWORK?
XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINNESOTA COUNCIL FOR QUALITY DBA PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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