Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,728 to it, the largest being COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ($28,633). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $19M
What Northern Pines Mental Health Center does
Mission
Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Northern pines is a comprehensive community mental health center that was established in 1964, with a six-county service area in central minnesota that includes aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties. We have offices in aitkin, brainerd, little falls, long prairie, staples, wadena and walker.we provide a full range of mental health services to all ages, including mobile and residential crisis outreach services, adult community based services, assertive community treatment services for adults and youth, children & family services, school-based services, mental health and wellness education and promotion, medication management, outpatient therapy, psychiatry, peer specialist services, substance use services, a drop-in center located in staples, and more.as an essential community provider, northern pines provides reduced or no-fee services, based on its sliding fee scale. A minnesota nonprofit corporation, northern pines is governed by a volunteer board of directors, representing the communities it serves.
$16,428,598 spent$21,346,278 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,428,598.
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 2017 to 2018, from $8.9M to $14M (+59%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 15% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Laura Vaughn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $30.
2 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 NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER’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 PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
100% 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 PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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 PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: 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 NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER?
- NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,728 to it, the largest being COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ($28,633). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $53,728 in grants to NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER?
- COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN PINES MENTAL HEALTH CENTER 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 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