Minnesota · Nonprofit
Recycling Association of Minnesota
Recycling Association of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,359 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $468k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Recycling Association of Minnesota does
Mission
Promote resource conservation through recycling, composting, reuse & waste reduction in Minnesota.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rain barrel and compost bill sales (RBCB): provide rain barrels and compost bins to residents of Minnesota with some government sponsored subsidies available.
$198,913 spent$277,901 earned by the program74% of program spendingRAM and partner organization SWANA hosted annual conference. The conference provides members, partners, and other professionals with unique education and networking opportunities. Conference education topics included organics, solid waste, recycling, best practices, technologies, and innovations.
$68,381 spent$73,072 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,294.
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 2017 to 2018, from $146k to $236k (+62%).
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 7% · 2021 12% · 2022 4% · 2023 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Recycling Association of Minnesota’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michael Bennett
Executive Director
Board chair
Paul Gardner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13 → $9k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Recycling Association of Minnesota’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
Recycling Association of Minnesota leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 Recycling Association of Minnesota.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of Recycling Association of Minnesota'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Recycling Association of Minnesota's revenue grew 85% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Recycling Association of 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Recycling Association of Minnesota: 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 Recycling Association of Minnesota?
- Recycling Association of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,359 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Recycling Association of Minnesota have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,359 in grants to Recycling Association of Minnesota, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Recycling Association of Minnesota?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Recycling Association of 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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