Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR
NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,350 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($19,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Northfield Downtown Development Cor does
Mission
Grow, maintain and support the vitality of downtown northfield.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided services to businesses, property owners, and visitors that increased the vitality of downtown northfield and improved the visitor experience, including major programming services changes due to the pandemic and local business tragedies. -work with main street minnesota, which northfield continues to be a main street accredited city. - third thursdays downtown drew 350+ per event
$13,664 spentof which $1,514 as grants87% of program spendingArtists on main st program provides grants to artists to beautify the downtown area and increase tourism traffic. 2 artists were supported in 2024.
$2,021 spentof which $2,021 as grants13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $15,685.
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 $53k to $30k (−44%).
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.
100% of NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR’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
NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
79% 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 NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 74% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR's revenue fell 73% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR: 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 NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR?
- NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,350 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($19,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,350 in grants to NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHFIELD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT COR 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 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