Minnesota · Nonprofit
SERTOMA INC
SERTOMA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,359 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 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 FY2026
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Sertoma Inc does
Mission
Assisting persons with hearing health issues and educating the public on the issues surrounding hearing health
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Santas Closet: Serve approximately 400 children annually from throughout Brown County whose families are receiving county social services and or financial aid and do not have the financial resources to provide reasonable gifts etc for their children at Christmas time; also contributed 1,000 to the Coats for Kids project which distributed coats to needy families at Christmas time.
$25,556 spent67% of program spendingDonation to local schools for the purchase of new audiometers for the student hearing screenings and to the medical center for replacement of the infant hearing screening equipment
$10,175 spent27% of program spendingClub Operating Costs: Support several community projects including planting of flowers to beautify the town ditch clean-up sending local hearing-impaired children to a specialty summer camp sponsoring the Service to Mankind Award selection and banquet etc.
$2,485 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,216.
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 $42k to $88k (+109%).
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.
81% of SERTOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $11.
3 of 3 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 SERTOMA 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
SERTOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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 SERTOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 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 SERTOMA 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. $31k 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
SERTOMA INC has grown faster than half of the 171 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 171 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like SERTOMA INC
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.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERTOMA 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 SERTOMA INC?
- SERTOMA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,359 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 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 SERTOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,359 in grants to SERTOMA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERTOMA INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERTOMA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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