Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION
MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $739k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Minnewaska Laker Foundation does
Mission
To support, aid, promote, enhance and improve the activities programs (including athletics, fine arts, music and academic activities) of the Minnewaska Area School District # 2149 in Pope County, Minnesota. To enhance and secure student opportunities to participate in activities and to strengthen the relationship that exists between the school district, it's alumni and the communities that it serves, including Glenwood, Lowry, Starbuck, Sedan and Villard. To strengthen the educational system of the school district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation donated funds to the Minnewaska Area School District #2149 to help cover the shortfall for extra curricular expenses for students in athletics, academic organizations, music and arts. The total donations to Minnewaska Area Schools totaled $30,460. Over 1,000 students are served by the Minnewaska Area School District #2149 in grades K-12, and the majority of those students benefit from the donations and activities of the Minnewaska Laker Foundation. The foundation donated $5,000 to the Minnewaska Baseball Association (a 501(c)(3) organization) for baseball field and stadium improvements on the Minnewaska Area School campus. The foundation donated $1,000 to Minnewaska Dollars for Scholars (a 501(c)(3) organization)for scholarships for Minnewaska graduates.
$57,354 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,354.
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 2023 to 2024, from $502k to $2.8M (+463%).
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.
9% of MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $90k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 LAKER 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
MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 LAKER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNEWASKA LAKER 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 LAKER FOUNDATION?
- MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,100 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $129,100 in grants to MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNEWASKA LAKER FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNEWASKA LAKER 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.
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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 6 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