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PROTECT MINNESOTA

PROTECT MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,634,990 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($905,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$289k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$120k
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Protect Minnesota does

Mission

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build a strong statewide values-based movement to end gun violence that recognizes the issue as one of justice and human rights.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We have been working to prevent gun violence since 1991. We started out as Citizens for a Safer Minnesota - a coalition of 16 statewide medical public health law enforcement social justice and faith groups. We passed the first law in the country preventing domestic abusers from purchasing guns which later became the model for the national law still in effect. In 2005 Citizens for a Safer Minnesota merged with Million Moms March Minnesota to create Protect Minnesota. We are committed to the public health approach to gun violence focusing on prevention through evidence-based solutions and modifying the behavior of populations. We have a researcher on staff and have established the Northstar Public Health Conference on Gun Violence to make up-to-date national and state-based research on gun violence available to professionals across the state. We formed the Interfaith Alliance for Gun Safety because faith communities working together are the most powerful agents for change in MN.

    $167,426 spentof which $15,000 as grants$167,230 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,426.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($316k) Expenses 100 ($279k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2018 Revenue 153 ($483k) Expenses 147 ($409k) Net assets 199 ($148k)2020 Revenue 151 ($478k) Expenses 130 ($361k) Net assets 311 ($230k)2021 Revenue 89 ($281k) Expenses 115 ($319k) Net assets 258 ($191k)2022 Revenue 70 ($222k) Expenses 117 ($327k) Net assets 114 ($84k)2023 Revenue 184 ($582k) Expenses 176 ($491k) Net assets 236 ($174k)2024 Revenue 91 ($289k) Expenses 123 ($344k) Net assets 162 ($120k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (91)Expenses (123)Net assets (162)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $200k to $94k (−53%).

$86k
$176k
$261k
$200k
$94k
$178k
$129k
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PROTECT MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$74k
’18
$117k
’20
−$39k
’21
−$105k
’22
$90k
’23
−$54k
’24
3.6
months of
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

Margaret Emery

CEO

Board chair

Anthony Bulter

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed101414811010
Joined·+5·+6··+8
No longer listed·1·12··8
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $477k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 PROTECT MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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

PROTECT MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

36% 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 PROTECT MINNESOTA.

55%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 64% · 2019 61% · 2020 74% · 2021 67% · 2022 59% · 2023 63% — 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

40% of PROTECT MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PROTECT MINNESOTA draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states in all.

MN
IL
OH
CA
MO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $516k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROTECT MINNESOTA's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PROTECT MINNESOTA

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 48%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Citizens for a Saver Minnesota · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROTECT MINNESOTA?
PROTECT MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,634,990 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($905,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROTECT MINNESOTA have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,634,990 in grants to PROTECT MINNESOTA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROTECT MINNESOTA?
THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $905,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROTECT MINNESOTA 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 16 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