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MINNESOTA FURS

MINNESOTA FURS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $549 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$211k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$549
Net assets
$177k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Minnesota Furs does

Mission

Minnesota Furs is organized exclusively for charitable artistic and educational purposes specifically to promote public awareness and education of anthropomorphic arts and culture together with other organizations in the broader community. MNFurs will organize and participate in a variety of public and private events aimed to encourage the community to flourish organize and build productive networks with the broader public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fundraising and educational event Furry Migration had around 2243 people attend. This event is the major source of income for the organization that provides education for arts literature and performance for the attendees of the event

    $152,321 spent$189,369 earned by the program
    88% of program spending
  2. Provide year round education and gathering events for artists writers performers and other members of our local community.These events on average have 200 attendees and are funded directly by membership,merchandise sales and donations from the community

    $14,386 spent$16,033 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Midwinter Frolic is a yearly camping social event which provides education for the arts literature and performance for the attendees of the event. About 80 people attended the event.

    $6,536 spent$8,088 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,243.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2023 Revenue 144 ($117k) Expenses 121 ($83k) Net assets 150 ($101k)2024 Revenue 180 ($146k) Expenses 146 ($100k) Net assets 218 ($146k)2025 Revenue 260 ($211k) Expenses 264 ($181k) Net assets 264 ($177k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (260)Expenses (264)Net assets (264)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 2023 to 2024, from $101k to $146k (+45%).

$67k
$101k
$146k
$177k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MINNESOTA FURS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’22
$34k
’23
$46k
’24
$30k
’25
12
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

Shawn McHenry

Convention Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $129 → $124.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FURS’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 FURS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MINNESOTA FURS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve11.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

34
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINNESOTA FURS?
MINNESOTA FURS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $549 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MINNESOTA FURS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $549 in grants to MINNESOTA FURS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA FURS?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINNESOTA FURS 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 2022–2025), 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