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RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,227 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($147,631). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$318k
Net assets
$304k
6/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Red Wing Public Schools Foundation does

Mission

Support of education programs for red wing public school district (isd 256) and scholarships for graduates of red wing public schools

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support of education programs for red wing public school district (isd 256) and scholarships for graduates of red wing public schools

    $93,669 spentof which $93,669 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $93,669.

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 ($626k) Expenses 100 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($660k)2018 Revenue 12 ($75k) Expenses 105 ($131k) Net assets 57 ($375k)2019 Revenue 12 ($75k) Expenses 82 ($103k) Net assets 53 ($348k)2020 Revenue 5 ($30k) Expenses 48 ($60k) Net assets 52 ($341k)2021 Revenue 13 ($80k) Expenses 57 ($71k) Net assets 56 ($371k)2022 Revenue 2 ($14k) Expenses 51 ($63k) Net assets 52 ($346k)2023 Revenue 4 ($22k) Expenses 14 ($18k) Net assets 57 ($374k)2024 Revenue 3 ($22k) Expenses 101 ($126k) Net assets 44 ($290k)2025 Revenue 11 ($69k) Expenses 76 ($94k) Net assets 46 ($304k)
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Revenue (11)Expenses (76)Net assets (46)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 2017 to 2018, from $660k to $375k (−43%).

$660k
$375k
$348k
$341k
$371k
$346k
$374k
$290k
$304k
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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

92% of RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,013 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.

$501k
’17
−$56k
’18
−$27k
’19
−$30k
’20
$9k
’21
−$50k
’22
$5k
’23
−$105k
’24
−$25k
’25
39
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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Listed10109910111088
Joined·+1+1+1+1+1+3+0+2
No longer listed·12100422
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $66k → $35k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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

RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

46%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 59% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 43% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“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

60% of RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

67% of RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'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 $105k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

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’18
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’21
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,106 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve38.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−24% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,106 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,227 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($147,631). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $318,227 in grants to RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $147,631 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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.

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 8 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