Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION
MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC ($41,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Minnesota Waste Wise Foundation does
Mission
The Minnesota Waste Wise Foundation improves the environmental health and economic vitality of our communities by fostering sustainability principles in minnesota based businesses and organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o for accomplishmentsthe minnesota environmental sustainability foundation formally knowns as waste wise foundation has been operating since 1994. Our environmental sustainability consulting services continue to benefit minnesota businesses and nonprofit communities throughout the state. Counties, other entites contract with minnesota waste wise to help them advance their goals to reduce the commercial waste generated. Energy utilities contract with minnesota waste wise to help them advance commercial and industrial energy reduction projects. We're pleased to report the following results for fiscal year 2024-2025:- 845 site visits conducted with busineses throughout minnesota,- over $1.7m in grant dollars distributed including $603,000 in energy rebates- $728,000 estimated year 1 cost savings documented due to energy and waste project implementation -4.7m estimated year 1 annual kwh energy savings documented- 4,800 estimated year 1 annual dekatherms energy savings documented- 1.78m estimated year 1 pounds of waste diverted or reduced from waste stream- 380,000 units of plastic waste diverted from landfills- 6,700 metric tons of co2 emissiosn reduced
$2,043,515 spentof which $419,312 as grants$2,791,708 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,043,515.
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 $1.7M to $2.4M (+40%).
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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION’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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION.
“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
MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION 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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION
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
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Minnesota Chamber of Commerce · exempt
- Minnesota Chamber Foundation · exempt
- Jobs for Minnesotans · exempt
- United for Jobs · exempt
- Pro Jobs Majority · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION: 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 WASTE WISE FOUNDATION?
- MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,000 to it, the largest being THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC ($41,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $56,000 in grants to MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION?
- THE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA WASTE WISE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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