Minnesota · Nonprofit
OFF THE BLUE COUCH
OFF THE BLUE COUCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38,000 to it, the largest being THE OLSETH FOUNDATION ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OFF THE BLUE COUCH's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Greater Mankato Area United Way Incshared funders
- Friends of Recovery Cafeportfolio match
- Ujima the National Center on Violence Against Womenportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
100% of OFF THE BLUE COUCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of OFF THE BLUE COUCH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of OFF THE BLUE COUCH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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.
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.
- Greater Mankato Area United Way Incshared fundersMN · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Friends of Recovery Cafeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ujima the National Center on Violence Against Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Peer Recovery Organizations Ohio-Proportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tw Percy B Ferebee Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residencesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ-Centered Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steve and Kate Smith Community Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 OFF THE BLUE COUCH
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OFF THE BLUE COUCH: 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 OFF THE BLUE COUCH?
- OFF THE BLUE COUCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38,000 to it, the largest being THE OLSETH FOUNDATION ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OFF THE BLUE COUCH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $38,000 in grants to OFF THE BLUE COUCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OFF THE BLUE COUCH?
- THE OLSETH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OFF THE BLUE COUCH 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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