Minnesota · Nonprofit
Minnesota Recovery Connection
Minnesota Recovery Connection (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,189 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($210,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $989k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Minnesota Recovery Connection does
Mission
Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct delivery of peer recovery support services, including volunteeropportunities, one-to-one recovery coaching, recovery outreach,telephone recovery support, all recovery meetings, recovery resourcenavigation, and more.
$1,681,626 spentof which $940,772 as grants$179,893 earned by the program74% of program spendingOrganizing, promoting and executing "Recovery Works!!" efforts to put a face and voice to recovery by encouraging individuals to recover out loud, to vote and to celebrate recovery
$466,814 spent20% of program spendingTraining and continuing education in peer recovery support services.
$137,621 spent$83,762 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,286,061.
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 2022 to 2023, from $223k to $549k (+146%).
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: 2017 78% · 2018 73% · 2019 73% · 2020 48% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 47% · 2024 75% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Minnesota Recovery Connection’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Cynthia Magallanes
Executive Director
Board chair
Darin Carr
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $193k.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Recovery Connection’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 Recovery Connection has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
38% 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 Recovery Connection.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 59% · 2019 90% · 2020 44% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
30% of Minnesota Recovery Connection's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
83% of Minnesota Recovery Connection's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Minnesota Recovery Connection has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Minnesota Recovery Connection
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Minnesota Recovery Connection: 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 Recovery Connection?
- Minnesota Recovery Connection (Minnesota) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $989,189 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($210,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Minnesota Recovery Connection have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $989,189 in grants to Minnesota Recovery Connection, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota Recovery Connection?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota Recovery Connection 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 21 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