Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC
MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,624 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,154). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Minnewaska Lake Association Inc does
Mission
Walleye stocking program as a part of an ongoing project to improve the fisheries in Pope County, MN. MLA supplemented the Minnesota DNR's stocking programs and habitat program in this endeavor. The organization also participates in other efforts to improve the water quality, fish habitat quality and fishery of Lake Minnewaska. These efforts include monitoring water quality, monitoring locations of invasive species and coordinating with other entities in an effort to control invasive species.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Walleye stocking program as part of an ongoing project to improve the fisheries in Pope County, MN. MLA supplements the Minnesota DNR's stocking program and habitat program in this endeavor. The organization also provides the lead role in identifying invasive species and working with the Minnesota DNR in the treatment of affected areas of the lake. The organization also took on the "Lets go Fishing" project. This project provides a pontoon staffed by volunteers to take senior citizens of our area out on Lake Minnewaska for fishing, sight seeing and recreational opportunities. The outings happen one to two times per week, weather permitting. As part of the Let's Go Fishing endeavor, the organization acquired the pontoon, motor and trailer formerly owned by the Let's Go Fishing organization, along with assuming the debt on the equipment. This action was taken to assure continuation of the program on Lake Minnewaska. The organization also participates in monitoring and controlling invasive species and water testing and sampling programs and is involved in ongoing discussions involving invasive species,shoreline erosion and water level issues.
$81,060 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,060.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $86k to $115k (+33%).
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.
100% of MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $250.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 MINNEWASKA LAKE 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
MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of MINNEWASKA LAKE 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 $470 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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
MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNEWASKA LAKE 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.
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,624 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,154). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,624 in grants to MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNEWASKA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC?
- MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNEWASKA LAKE 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 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