Minnesota · Nonprofit
RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC
RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($33,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Rural Minnesota Cep Inc does
Mission
Rural Minnesota Cep Inc.'s (rmcep) mission is to provide exemplary workforce development services to our communities and exceed the expectations of our stakeholders. The vision of the organization is to inspire positive change leading to successful and prosperous individuals and communities through the power of work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rmcep receives funding from sixteen county human service agencies to provide minnesota family investment program (mfip/tanf) employment and training services within northern and west central minnesota. The focus of the mfip program is to move public assistance receipients rapidly into the labor force. In addition rmcep receives funding for supplementary programs including the diversionary work program (dwp) which is short term work focused services to help families move immediately to employment rather than to public assistance. Rmcep staff provide counseling, training, support and help participants to identify skills they need to develop to achieve and retain employment. Meeting the required federal performance measure is a basis for receiving performance based funding. The self support index measures those participants that are working 30 hours or more, or off mfip three years after enrollment. During the fiscal year 100% of the counties served by rmcep met or exceeded the support index.
$3,623,129 spentof which $989,086 as grants34% of program spendingRmcep provided services to eligible adults, youth, and dislocated workers through the workforce innovations and opportunity act programs. Adult and dislocated work services provided information, instruction, guidance, training and support services to increase employment , job retention and earnings of participants. Youth services establishes a comprehensive youth development system that provides effective learning environmentslinking education and employment, leadership development, nurturing mentors and sustained support for comparing performance standards to state goals:wioa adult employment rate at second quarter: percentage of adult participants employed two quarters after exit: mn state required goal; 84.0%. Rmcep actual outcome: 80.17%
$3,013,035 spentof which $1,087,162 as grants28% of program spendingThe state of minnesota provides additional resources to assist dislocated works and youth through the state dislocated worker program and the minnesota youth program. The state dislocated work program assists workers as a result of a layoff or a business closing. The careerforce center services are available to the participants to receive information, guidance, training or support services to re-enter the workforce. The success of rmcep is measured by comparing performance standards to state goals:state dislocated worker program employment at fourth quarter - the percentage of participants employed four quarters after exit: mn state goal; 83.5%. Rmcep actual outcome 83.6%.
$3,801,575 spentof which $1,697,131 as grants36% of program spendingFunds received by foundations and local school districts to continue efforts of career advising in the high schools to promote youth initiatives and college awareness programs. Students are encouraged to participate in the national career readiness certificate program which is a recognized credential for many local employers. Other services were provided to support partner services in the careerforce resource rooms throughout our workforce service area.the minnesota youth program (myp) is designed to provide meaningful work and skills training to eligible 14 through 24 year old youth so that their future employability will be enhanced. The primary activity is work training. The performance measure for this program is that at least 80% of the youth will return to school, enter employment or enter another training program.wioa dislocated worker program credential rate - number of participants who attain a credential within one year of program exit: mn state required goal: 83.10%. Rmcep actual outcome: 87.80%.youth employment/training rate fourth quarter after exit - percentage of participants who are in education, training, activities or employment during the fourth quarter after…
$235,524 spentof which $12,534 as grants$228,010 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,673,263.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $3.4M (+66%).
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: 2017 94% · 2018 98% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Tina Jaster
Executive director
Board chair
Lori Schwartz
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $34k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC’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
RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 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
100% of RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC: 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 RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC?
- RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($33,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $48,500 in grants to RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $33,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL MINNESOTA CEP INC 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 2 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