Minnesota · Nonprofit
PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC
PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,977 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($197,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $576k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Phoenix Alternatives Inc does
Mission
Pai provides day, employment and community support programming to adults with developmental disabilities, fostering participation in the community through learning, volunteering, the arts, social connections, employment opportunities and more.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Pai served 275 people in 2024, leveraging three locations in ramsey county and one location in washington county, minnesota. Individualized home support and respite (ihsr) services were added in 2024, providing one-to-one support for people and their families, at home and in the community. Pai day and employment programming includes life skills, employment readiness, paid work options, visual and performing arts, pet therapy with certified teams, professional music therapy, volunteering and a wide array of other community experiences. Family members and the greater community benefit from the personal growth, life skills, self-advocacy and independence that participants gain, including increased professional and social capacity for family members and others closest to pai participants.
$5,860,855 spent$6,692,545 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,860,855.
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 $4.6M to $5.9M (+30%).
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: 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John Kuhrmeyer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $76k → $222k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC’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
PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 33% · 2020 54% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 69% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
51% of PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC'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 $284k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $292k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $576k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES 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 PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC?
- PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,977 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($197,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $575,977 in grants to PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES INC?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHOENIX ALTERNATIVES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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