Minnesota · Nonprofit
NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS
NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($360,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $281k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $775k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Nonprofit Financial Commons does
Mission
The financial commons-a national peer-led network-supports a community of nonprofit finance leaders and others to share knowledge, ideas, and experiences. It also supports those with mutual interest in acting as advocates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General programs - the Nonprofit Financial Commons is an online resource where nonprofit leaders can hone their financial strategy and management skills in ways that are immediately useful and tailored to context no matter the size, location or field of endeavor. The venue, which is entirely online, allows nonprofit leaders to make wise financial choices and avoid costly mistakes, through ensuring that the information they receive has been informed, tested in practice and evaluated by nonprofit peers. The program includes monthly participatory online events on current topics, a newsletter, discussion forum and a curated library of resources including videos of past events, written materials and tools. Nfc is built around knowledge built through experience, but it also attempts to advance that knowledge at the cutting edge of practice. Nfc centers the experiences of groups that represent marginalized populations to ensure broad inclusivity.
$152,881 spent$83,444 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,881.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $26k to $104k (+292%).
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.
70% of NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
David Renz
Board chair
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 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS’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
NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS.
“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
82% of NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $360k 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
NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS: 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 NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS?
- NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($360,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $774,653 in grants to NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $360,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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