Minnesota · Nonprofit
PACER CENTER INC
PACER CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,274,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,977,872). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Pacer Center Inc does
Mission
To improve educational opportunities and enhance the quality of life for children and young adults with disabilities and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pacer's parent training and advocacy program helps families of children and young adults with disabilities navigate special education, health, mental health, transition-to-adulthood systems, and more so their children receive appropriate services and support. Provided 10,968 instances of individual assistance; presented 126 trainings to 7,766 attendees; 95% of individuals completing evaluation forms reported learning something new.
$3,052,499 spent$119,427 earned by the program73% of program spendingPacer's social inclusion program supports children and youth with disabilities to be more included and accepted in their communities. The national bullying prevention center educates schools and communities to respond to bullying through online resources and national awareness campaigns. Pacer's count me in puppet program teaches young children about disabilities and inclusion, the fun times provided inclusive social activities for teens with and without disabilities. Provided 639 instances of individual assistance; presented 82 puppet shows to 4,553 attendees; and had 633,717 visits to national bullying prevention center website.
$651,211 spent$18,638 earned by the program15% of program spendingPacer's simon technology center makes the life-changing benefits of technology more accessible to children and youth with disabilities through individual consultations, a lending library, trainings, and stem activities. Provided 2,051 instances of individual assistance; presented 42 events for 1,858 attendees; conducted 106 consultations and individualized trainings; and had 429 visits to the lending library.
$503,690 spent$7,800 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,207,400.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $22M (+17%).
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 34% · 2018 31% · 2019 33% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 50% · 2024 31% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of PACER CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Tonia Teasley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 42 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $1.0M.
21 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of Pacer). These are real filings, and they are not money PACER CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PACER CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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
PACER CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 PACER CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 58% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 32% · 2022 42% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of PACER CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of PACER CENTER INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
PACER CENTER INC's revenue fell 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PACER CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record — $10.1M federal, $11k state.
- Department of Education$8.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PACER CENTER INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACER CENTER INC: 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 PACER CENTER INC?
- PACER CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,274,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,977,872). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACER CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $12,274,936 in grants to PACER CENTER INC, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACER CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,977,872 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACER CENTER INC 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 111 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing