Minnesota · Nonprofit
MOTHER BEAR PROJECT
MOTHER BEAR PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,926 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $0
What Mother Bear Project does
Mission
Supply teddy bears to children affected by hiv/aids in emerging nations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mother Bear Project's mission is to provide comfort and hope to children in emerging nations that are highly affected by hiv/aids. Mother Bear Project sends bears to children affected by hiv/aids in 26 african countries. The great majority are still being sent to sub-saharan africa.
$187,749 spent100% of program spendingMother Bear Project's mission is to provide comfort and hope to children in emerging nations that are highly affected by hiv/aids. Mother Bear Project sends bears to children affected by hiv/aids in 26 african countries. The great majority are still being sent to sub-saharan africa.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $187,749.
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 2024 to 2025, from $153k to $0 (−100%).
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.
54% of MOTHER BEAR PROJECT’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25 → $11k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 MOTHER BEAR PROJECT’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
MOTHER BEAR PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 MOTHER BEAR PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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
95% of MOTHER BEAR PROJECT'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 $940 that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MOTHER BEAR PROJECT's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MOTHER BEAR PROJECT
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
99%
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 MOTHER BEAR PROJECT: 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 MOTHER BEAR PROJECT?
- MOTHER BEAR PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,926 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($10,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOTHER BEAR PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $19,926 in grants to MOTHER BEAR PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTHER BEAR PROJECT?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTHER BEAR PROJECT 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