Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,006 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($191,192). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Minnesota State University Student Association Inc does
Mission
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. We actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal level for higher education policies that make a positive impact for our students and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student leadership: student leadership programming consists of the community leader fellowship program, our student-led board of directors and officers training, development, and hands-on leadership development programming.
$317,982 spent$319,438 earned by the program43% of program spendingStudent advocacy: students united provides information to students about the issues that affect their lives as students, provides students with opportunities to participate in advocacy at many levels, and represents student positions to policymakers. We advocate at the system, state, and federal levels on a wide variety of higher education issues.
$262,950 spent$399,298 earned by the program36% of program spendingStudent connections: our annual advocacy conference, campus connections, and student engagement incentives.
$92,561 spent$79,860 earned by the program13% of program spendingScholarships: students united offers seven scholarships to assist students with their higher education expenses.
$59,554 spentof which $36,500 as grants$195,585 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $733,047.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $2.8M (−16%).
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: 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION 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
Thomas Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Sierra Roiger
State chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $81k → $11k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 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 UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
81% of MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC is better cushioned than half 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 UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 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 UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,006 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($191,192). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $307,006 in grants to MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $191,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY 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.
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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 5 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