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RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL

RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,731 to it, the largest being Women's Foundation of Minnesota ($84,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$31k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$129k
Net assets
$60k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Range Engineering Council does

Mission

Line 28 first accomplishment engineering cool: a free after school program taught by real life engineers to 5th and 6th grade students that offers hands on experiments linked to local career opportunities. The program operated 8-16 weeks in hibbing, virginia, chisholm and mesabi east . Line 29 second accomplishment camp invention - a week long summer adventure with lessons that explore the connections between science, technology, engineering and innovation. Children work together to see solutions to real world problems and sharpen critical 21st century learning skills while rotating through several modules . Line 30 - third accomplishment iron range stem showcase: a free event serving over 2,000 6th grade students from 28 schools in northeastern minnesota. The event is also open to the public in the evenings. Over 80 hands on experiments led by our partners in industry and higher education . Line 31 - all other accomplishments various other programs that promote awareness of and encourage participation in science, technology, engineering andd math

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $3,462 spent
    9% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $14,116 spentof which $5,755 as grants
    38% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $15,461 spent
    41% of program spending
  4. Other program services

    $4,288 spentof which $1,500 as grants
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,327.

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 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($118k)2018 Revenue 84 ($84k) Expenses 133 ($88k) Net assets 96 ($114k)2019 Revenue 77 ($77k) Expenses 179 ($119k) Net assets 60 ($71k)2020 Revenue 70 ($70k) Expenses 88 ($59k) Net assets 70 ($83k)2021 Revenue 35 ($35k) Expenses 56 ($38k) Net assets 68 ($80k)2022 Revenue 58 ($57k) Expenses 58 ($38k) Net assets 84 ($99k)2023 Revenue 25 ($25k) Expenses 65 ($44k) Net assets 68 ($80k)2024 Revenue 33 ($33k) Expenses 54 ($36k) Net assets 65 ($77k)2025 Revenue 32 ($31k) Expenses 65 ($43k) Net assets 51 ($60k)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (65)Net assets (51)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 2018 to 2019, from $114k to $71k (−37%).

$118k
$114k
$71k
$83k
$80k
$99k
$80k
$77k
$60k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,912 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’17
−$4k
’18
−$42k
’19
$11k
’20
−$3k
’21
$19k
’22
−$19k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL’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

RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

77% 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 RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL.

65%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 59% · 2019 82% · 2020 99% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.

Where its funders are

77% of RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL's revenue fell 68% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−39% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL?
RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,731 to it, the largest being Women's Foundation of Minnesota ($84,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $128,731 in grants to RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL?
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RANGE ENGINEERING COUNCIL 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 7 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