Minnesota · Nonprofit
NEXUS FAMILY HEALING
NEXUS FAMILY HEALING (Minnesota) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,242,454 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN ($3,733,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Nexus Family Healing does
Mission
Nexus Family Healing is committed to addressing youth mental health issues, healing childhood trauma, and providing solutions that lead to physical safety, mental well-being, and permanency for all of our youth and families. Our mission: changing the course of a child's life by stabilizing families and strengthening mental health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Nexus-East Bethel provides individualized, trauma-informed psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF) services for all-gender youth ages 10-19 with significant mental and behavioral health issues. At Nexus-East Bethel, youth experience a safe environment that provides on-campus education, individualized programing and therapy and recreational opportunities. Nexus Family Healing's Walden Crossing was in the process of getting their facility ready in 2023. The facility officially opened in 2024 to clients. Walden Crossing provides individualized, trauma-informed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) services for youth ages 10-17 with mental and developmental disabilities who have become involved in the justice system.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Nexus Family Healing, a national nonprofit based in Plymouth, MN, provides innovative community-based mental health services, foster care and adoption, and residential treatment programs for children and families. Each program offers high-level, specialized services to heal complex trauma and restore well-being.Over the last 50 years, Nexus Family Healing has helped thousands of children find individualized paths to emotional and behavioral health. We create a customized plan for each child and family - and provide the exact combination of support services needed to put that plan into action. Our innovative personalized approach helps heal trauma, break cycles of harm, and restore hope to families when all seems lost.At Nexus Family Healing, we believe every child is worth it - and every family matters. We understand each time we help a child change the course of his or her life, we create the potential for healthier families, stronger communities and a better world. We are committed to helping even the most challenging situations. Simply put, changing one life changes everything.Services and resources include: Nexus-Mille Lacs Family Healing (Onamia, MN): Resources for boys, ages…
$64,018,296 spentof which $265,000 as grants$78,217,359 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $64,018,296.
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 2021 to 2022, from $34M to $59M (+72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of NEXUS FAMILY HEALING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Lisa Bjergaard
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $2.6M.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nexus Foundation for Family Healing). These are real filings, and they are not money NEXUS FAMILY HEALING raised.
From the IRS filings of NEXUS FAMILY HEALING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 33 funders by total. 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
NEXUS FAMILY HEALING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 NEXUS FAMILY HEALING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 67% · 2020 97% · 2021 78% · 2022 79% · 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of NEXUS FAMILY HEALING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of NEXUS FAMILY HEALING's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NEXUS FAMILY HEALING's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NEXUS FAMILY HEALING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.0M on record.
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$7.0M
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 NEXUS FAMILY HEALING
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
81% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Nexus-Gerard Family Healing LLC · disregarded
- Gerard Management Services LLC · disregarded
- Nexus-Woodbourne Family Healing · exempt
- Nexus- Diversified Community Services · exempt
- Nexus-Path Family Healing · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEXUS FAMILY HEALING: 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 NEXUS FAMILY HEALING?
- NEXUS FAMILY HEALING (Minnesota) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,242,454 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN ($3,733,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEXUS FAMILY HEALING have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $7,242,454 in grants to NEXUS FAMILY HEALING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEXUS FAMILY HEALING?
- MAYO CLINIC GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $3,733,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEXUS FAMILY HEALING 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 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing