Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)
MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA) (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $240k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $390k
What Minnkota Deacons Association (Mda) does
Mission
To encourage, train, advise and assist the diaconates of classis minnkota in their call to effectively develop local minsitries of mercy both within the church and to all people and to work together to provide regional ministries of mercy that lie beyond the scope of individual
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Thrift store operations which receive donated goods, used clothing, furniture and miscellaneous household items and resells them for minimual prices as an assistance to low income individuals. The store is operated by five employees and many volunteers which help receive and sort items donated to the store. Revenues are generated by sales of items which is used to support low income individuals with living expenses and some items received are donated to needy individuals.
$75,983 spent$164,679 earned by the program49% of program spendingProvide clothing, household essentials, gas, lodging, transportation, and food for needy individuals in emergancy situatons and as an assistance to low income individuals to help suppliment their income for necessities. There is one compensated employee who oversees assistance and meets with individuals requesting the assistance. Revenues are provided by local churches, united way, businesses, and individuals
$75,626 spent$73,517 earned by the program49% of program spendingProvided educational tutoring and life skill assistance to foster children. Provided social skill learning through activities and instruction.
$2,343 spent2% of program spendingTo provide backpacks for school children of low income individuals
$1,595 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,547.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $226k to $310k (+37%).
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.
31% of MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Steve Wynja
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA): 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 MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)?
- MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA) (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA) have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA).
- Who is the largest funder of MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA)?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNKOTA DEACONS ASSOCIATION (MDA) 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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