Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES
MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being SCHMOKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $681k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates does
Mission
To protect Minnesotas lake and river heritage for current and future generations by forging powerful links among lakes lake advocates and policy makers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Lake Steward program has been transitioned to Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Protection and Education an affiliated organization.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Advocacy on behalf or shoreland owners and providing education to protect Minnesota water resources.
$176,942 spent$327,986 earned by the program35% of program spendingUtilizing grants from the State of Minnesota to prevent the spread of starry stonewort and other aquatic invasive species by providing CD3 boat cleaning stations and using civic leadership development to increase local civic norms to change boater behavior to clean drain dry and dispose every time boaters move a boat between water bodies.
$330,215 spentof which $260,314 as grants$329,207 earned by the program65% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $507,157.
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 2024 to 2025, from $102k to $144k (+40%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 23% · 2022 73% · 2023 30% · 2024 35% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 Forester
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES’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 LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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.
Organizations like MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES: 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 LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES?
- MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being SCHMOKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,000 in grants to MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES?
- SCHMOKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA LAKES AND RIVERS ADVOCATES 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 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