Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE
MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,228,075 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($638,758). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $125k
What Minnesota Family Institute does
Mission
Minnesota Family Institute (mfi) is a non-profit charitable christian organization that strengthens the families of minnesota by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of society. Mfi accomplishes its mission through education, training, research and non-partisan voter participation activities, training and encouraging churches and individuals to engage in the public square with a biblical worldview as "salt and "light" (matthew 5:16-16). Mfi addresses the civic, moral, economic, legal and social issues that influence the family in the public area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Minnesota Family Institute (mfi) issued informational updates and commentaries sent out to thousands of homes and businesses via email and direct mail. These communications feature inside information on legislative activity during the sessions, cultural analysis and insightful pro-family perspective on news and issues impacting the family in the public arena from a christian, biblical worldview perspective. Mfi partnered with hundreds of churches around the state through our church ambassador network to equip pastors and congregants with an understanding of biblical christian citizenship on issues that affect the family in the public arena, in order to engage as a winsome, "salt and light" influence in elections and policy. Mfi further equipped pastors with historical and biblical information on their key role as moral and spiritual leaders in their communities and engaged them with legislators in obedience to the command of 1 timothy 2:1-4, to pray for leaders and all who are in authority. These efforts have been a tremendous encouragement to both pastors and legislators.the updated version of mfi's acclaimed parent resource guide continued educating and equipping parents so they…
$1,391,771 spentof which $67,510 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,391,771.
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 2023 to 2024, from $547k to $751k (+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 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Jeff Evans
President/CEO
Board chair
Arnie Abens
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $91k → $517k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 FAMILY INSTITUTE’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 FAMILY INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 FAMILY INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 41% · 2019 64% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
69% of MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
63% of MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $889k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FAMILY INSTITUTE
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- True North Legal Pllc · disregarded
- Minnesota Family Council · exempt
- Mfc Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE: 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 FAMILY INSTITUTE?
- MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,228,075 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($638,758). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,228,075 in grants to MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $638,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE 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 22 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