Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE
NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,821 to it, the largest being GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $254k
- Net assets
- $353k
What Northern Minnesota Robotics Confere does
Mission
Provide robotics league and educational
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided robotics league and educational opportunities to northern mn hs students
$75,030 spentof which $2,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,030.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $106k to $292k (+175%).
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: 2023 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $108 → $165k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE’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
NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE?
- NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,821 to it, the largest being GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION ($165,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $253,821 in grants to NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE?
- GEORGE W NEILSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN MINNESOTA ROBOTICS CONFERE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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