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RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB

RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $72,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ($72,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$72k
Net assets
$87k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Rainy Lake Sportfishing Club does

Mission

Promotion of sportsmanship and education in sportfishing, maintenance of fish spawning beds, protection of fish spawning beds and water quality of the rainy lake watershed

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Enhanced fishing on rainy lake, rainy river and tributaries through community education on responsible fishing and conservation practices.

  2. Enhanced, cleaned and maintained the rat root river and surrounding waters to promote natural fish reproduction.

  3. Sponsored and promoted fishing awareness and conservation through a variety of fishing activities including a children's fishing pond, a catch and release program and a senior fish fry.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($34k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2018 Revenue 89 ($30k) Expenses 111 ($25k) Net assets 110 ($56k)2019 Revenue 80 ($27k) Expenses 93 ($21k) Net assets 123 ($62k)2020 Revenue 25 ($9k) Expenses 25 ($6k) Net assets 129 ($65k)2021 Revenue 69 ($24k) Expenses 75 ($17k) Net assets 142 ($71k)2022 Revenue 66 ($22k) Expenses 52 ($12k) Net assets 163 ($82k)2023 Revenue 58 ($20k) Expenses 68 ($15k) Net assets 172 ($86k)2024 Revenue 36 ($12k) Expenses 51 ($12k) Net assets 173 ($87k)2025 Revenue 23 ($8k) Expenses 37 ($8k) Net assets 172 ($87k)
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Revenue (23)Expenses (37)Net assets (172)

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 $71k to $82k (+15%).

$52k
$56k
$62k
$65k
$71k
$82k
$86k
$87k
$87k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$5k
’18
$6k
’19
$3k
’20
$7k
’21
$11k
’22
$4k
’23
$797
’24
−$629
’25
123
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.

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Listed201815151515131717
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+1+6+1
No longer listed·24000321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $12k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB’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

RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

18
board members
78%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB: 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 RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB?
RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $72,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ($72,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $72,000 in grants to RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB?
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $72,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAINY LAKE SPORTFISHING CLUB 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 1 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