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Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,840 to it, the largest being JAMES & WANDA HOLLENSTEINER FDN LISA MARY HOLLENSTEINER ($62,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$303k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$137k
Net assets
$232k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota does

Mission

Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota is a citizens' group that advocates for improvements in Minnesota's child welfare system. Our mission is to ensure that Minnesota has a child welfare system in which children are safe and reach their full potential.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Safe Passage spearheaded legislation to create a Supreme Court Council on Child Protection and Maltreatment. The purpose of the council is to review previous recommendations for changes to the child welfare system, discuss additional improvements for the near future and recommend legislative action by January 2026.

    $41,936 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Safe Passage supported a variety of bills aimed at protecting children, including the following: a misdemeanor charge for anyone impeding a report of suspected child abuse or neglect; systematic review of all child deaths in Minnesota due to maltreatment; improvements to Social Services Information System (SSIS) to streamline data entry and free up time for case management and case interactions. All bills passed.

  3. Safe Passage volunteers sent personal email messages to their legislators related to their state Representatives and Senators throughout the legislative session as well as during in-person visits to legislators during an annual Day on the Hill.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,936.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($78k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2019 Revenue 322 ($182k) Expenses 96 ($75k) Net assets 423 ($139k)2020 Revenue 237 ($134k) Expenses 181 ($142k) Net assets 398 ($131k)2021 Revenue 273 ($154k) Expenses 188 ($147k) Net assets 418 ($138k)2022 Revenue 331 ($186k) Expenses 193 ($151k) Net assets 525 ($173k)2023 Revenue 245 ($138k) Expenses 297 ($233k) Net assets 238 ($78k)2024 Revenue 537 ($303k) Expenses 190 ($149k) Net assets 705 ($232k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (537)Expenses (190)Net assets (705)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 2023 to 2024, from $86k to $232k (+169%).

$34k
$140k
$134k
$140k
$176k
$86k
$232k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

103% of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’18
$106k
’19
−$8k
’20
$6k
’21
$35k
’22
−$95k
’23
$154k
’24
19
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.

Board chair

Lisa Hollensteiner

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed868
Joined·+0+4
No longer listed·22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $13k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Safe Passage for Children 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

Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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

32% 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 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota.

46%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 32% · 2021 35% · 2022 66% · 2023 92% — 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

43% of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

72% of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
NC
FL

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Safe Passage for Children 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 50%Fundraising 22%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Safe Passage for Children 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 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota?
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,840 to it, the largest being JAMES & WANDA HOLLENSTEINER FDN LISA MARY HOLLENSTEINER ($62,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $136,840 in grants to Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota?
JAMES & WANDA HOLLENSTEINER FDN LISA MARY HOLLENSTEINER is the largest funder on record, with $62,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Safe Passage for Children 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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