Minnesota · Nonprofit
PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER
PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $777,250 to it, the largest being WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ($456,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Frank W Veden Charitable Trustshared funderslocal
- Western Illinois Area Agency on Agingportfolio match
- Memorial Medical Center Incportfolio 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 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 43% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $177k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY 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
PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 67% · 2023 38% — 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
59% of PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $321k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Frank W Veden Charitable Trustshared funderslocalSD · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 22 organizations near you
- Western Illinois Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Medical Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ichf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Mankato Area United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Northern Allegheniesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hartz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Story County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cass County Electric Cooperative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Copper Shores Community Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Chippewa Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Cass-Clayshared fundersND · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
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 PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY 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.
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 PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER?
- PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $777,250 to it, the largest being WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ($456,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $777,250 in grants to PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY CENTER?
- WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $456,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERHAM AREA ACTIVITY 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.
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 4funders 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