Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STALEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Minnesota Private College Council Inc does
Mission
The minnesota private college council serves the shared needs of its member colleges and advocates for public policy that meets the educational needs of students, enhances private higher education, and strengthens minnesota's economic and civic fabric.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Minnesota private college council, inc. (the corporation) is a minnesota nonprofit corporation incorporated on may 22, 2012. It is organized and operated exclusively for social welfare, charitable, and educational purposes; and to (I) foster and implement co-operation among its members for the improvement of higher education; (ii) provide a unified voice for effective communication regarding independent higher education in the state of minnesota; (iii) co-operate with institutions of higher education, government agencies and other interested groups in developing policies and planning programs for the advancement of higher education. The corporation conducts public relations and advocacy work, legislative lobbying, cooperative marketing of our member institutions to students and families, and research. The corporation also serves as a vehicle for collaboration of its member institutions.
$2,542,036 spent$2,958,918 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,542,036.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $3.8M (+9%).
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.
0% of MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Paul D Cerkvenik
President and CEO
Board chair
Barbara Mcdonald
Chair
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 PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC’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
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Minnesota Private College Fund · exempt
- Partners for Education Opportunity · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC: 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 PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC?
- MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being STALEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC?
- STALEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE COUNCIL INC 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