Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,456 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,869). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $84k
What North Star Community Rowing does
Mission
Form 990-EZ, Part III - Organization's Primary Exempt Purpose: The mission of North Star Community Rowing is to empower individuals, transform lives, and build community through the sport of rowing. In 2024, NSCR provided indoor rowing training and on-the-water rowing programs to those in the community who have been traditionally excluded from the sport including people with physical disabilities and those who lack financial or geographic access to rowing at private rowing clubs in the Twin Cities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ North Star Community Rowing (NSCR) provided adaptive and community rowing programming to 37 individuals through 99 total enrollments across five program offerings in 2025: three Indoor Rowing sessions, one Race Training session, and one Summer on-the-water Rowing session. Approximately 70% of participants were Adaptive athletes or U.S. Veterans; core constituencies included older adults with disabilities and individuals lacking financial access to private rowing clubs. Indoor Rowing was held at Base Camp in Fort Snelling/Bloomington, MN, in partnership with Northern Star Scouting, totaling 29 weeks and 664 programming hours (up 62% from 2024). On-the-water and Race Training programs were held at Silverwood Park/Silver Lake in St. Anthony, MN, in partnership with Three Rivers Park District, serving 9 athletes at the Minneapolis Sprints Regatta and generating 233 training hours. NSCR expanded its equipment inventory with a donated trailer and five rowing shells, and added a half-time Program Director…
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2019 to 2020, from $102k to $63k (−38%).
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.
73% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $11k → $10k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING’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
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 60% · 2021 78% · 2022 80% · 2023 67% — 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
50% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING's revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING
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
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING?
- NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,456 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,869). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $64,456 in grants to NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,869 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH STAR COMMUNITY ROWING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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