Minnesota · Nonprofit
Minnesota State College Student Association Inc
Minnesota State College Student Association Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,085 to it, the largest being VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ($352,914). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Minnesota State College Student Association Inc does
Mission
LeadMN (MN State College Student Association/MSCSA) is an association of Minnesota's public two-year college students, which works to ensure accessible, quality, and affordable public higher education while providing students with representation, leadership development, and communication across the state .
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leadership Development: LeadMN (MSCSA) educates student leaders through skill development trainings, leadership conferences, and one on one conversations to provide them with the tools necessary to raise concerns, identify solutions, and build coalitions of student administrators, staff, and faculty to implement change. This past year LeadMN (MSCSA) held four leadership conferences. Regular communications are also sent to senate presidents and student senate advisors across the state and LeadMN (MSCSA) visits campuses to train students around civic engagement activities and various leadership development skills.
$631,746 spent$1,326,808 earned by the program71% of program spendingAdvocacy: LeadMN (MSCSA) works to uplift the voices of community and technical college students on campus with key decision makers and in our communities. This past year LeadMN helped students register to vote and cast their ballots in a safe manner. MSCSA represents student interest at the college system, state, and federal levels. On the federal level MSCSA led a group of students to visit Washington DC to meet with federal lawmakers. Once a year, a state advocacy day event is held where students are encouraged to participate in meeting with state legislators and advocate for themselves.
$84,244 spent9% of program spendingScholarship & Emergency Assistance: LeadMN (MSCSA) raises funds and provides scholarships to students across Minnesota who demonstrate leadership on their campuses and in their communities. The Free College Scholarship--Mr. Warren H. Robens and Mr. Henry P. Dembiczak Scholarship program launched in FY2024, continued in FY2025 awarding $97,500 (18 recipients received either $6,500 for full-time students or $3,250 for part-time). This past year MSCSA continued operating an Emergency Grant Program to support students that have been impacted by the pandemic. Over 154 emergency grants for $100 were awarded totaling $15,400. There were also another 62 scholarships awarded totaling $47,750 to help provide financial assistance to students to help continue their college education and to provide recognition for their accomplishments.
$179,966 spentof which $164,650 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $895,956.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.7M to $5.3M (+208%).
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 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Minnesota State College Student Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Rachel Boeke
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $52k → $138k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 State College Student Association 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Minnesota State College Student Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 State College Student Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 49% · 2019 40% · 2020 82% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 54% — 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
43% of Minnesota State College Student Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
Minnesota State College Student Association Inc draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 State College Student Association Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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 State College Student Association 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 State College Student Association 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 State College Student Association Inc?
- Minnesota State College Student Association Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,085 to it, the largest being VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ($352,914). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Minnesota State College Student Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,246,085 in grants to Minnesota State College Student Association Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota State College Student Association Inc?
- VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $352,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota State College Student Association 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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