Minnesota · Nonprofit
Northwoods Partners
Northwoods Partners (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,752 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ($248,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Northwoods Partners holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lovin' Lake Countylocal
- Souris Valley United Wayportfolio match
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.
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 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 16% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Northwoods Partners’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $34k → $55k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Northwoods Partners’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
Northwoods Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 Northwoods Partners.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 37% · 2019 67% · 2020 43% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Northwoods Partners's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMN · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lovin' Lake CountylocalMN · funds 29 organizations near you
- Souris Valley United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Cedarburg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northern Ozaukee Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ichf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cicoa Aging & In-Home Solutions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wochinske Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- IAAAA Education Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Head of the Lakes United Wayshared funderslocalMN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 4 organizations near you
- Ordean Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Northwoods Partners
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Public support
96%
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 Northwoods Partners: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Northwoods Partners?
- Northwoods Partners (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,752 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ($248,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northwoods Partners have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $529,752 in grants to Northwoods Partners, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwoods Partners?
- UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $248,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwoods Partners 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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing