Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,086 to it, the largest being CENTURION FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $69M
What Minnesota State University Moorhead Foundation Inc does
Mission
We create opportunities for generations of msum students by inspiring alumni and friends to connect, engage and give.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provides academic scholarship funding to minnesota state university moorhead. In 2024-2025, 517 msum students received scholarships, many of whom are first generation university students. Scholarship funding supports recruitment and retention of students. It also includes scholarships to student athletes as part of their total award package from the university. Fundraising for scholarships is a priority for the foundation.
$1,656,994 spentof which $1,656,994 as grants59% of program spendingProvides funding to minnesota state university moorhead to enhance and support it's mission for academic excellence. Funding to academic departments includes student research presentation travel, new rivers press, student awards, faculty research, dille fund for excellence, glasrud lecture series, marcil center for journalism plus many more.
$445,178 spentof which $445,178 as grants16% of program spendingProvides funding and activities to develop strong, ongoing relationships with msum alumni and friends including homecoming, various communication tools, reunions and other alumni functions and events.
$705,598 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,807,770.
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 $64M to $78M (+20%).
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 1% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Gary Haugo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $139k.
13 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION 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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION 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 UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC?
- MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,086 to it, the largest being CENTURION FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,520,086 in grants to MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION INC?
- CENTURION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD FOUNDATION 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 23 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