Minnesota · Nonprofit
SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($841,770). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What South St Paul Educational Foundation does
Mission
The mission and purpose of the south st. Paul educational foundation is to bridge students and donors to enrich learning and impact the lives of south st. Paul school district students. We do this by providing scholarships and supplemental classroom program funding through the support of our generous donors.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The south st. Paul educational foundation (sspef) has provided funding for the following during the fiscal year 2025-26. On may 13th the sspef awarded scholarships totaling 614,900 to 133 south st. Paul graduating seniors. These scholarships covered a wide range of dollar amounts and were given to students attending 4-year, 2-year, and technical vocational schools. Sspef also provided program funding for classroom enrichment totaling 110,068. These programs included funding math ixl subscriptions, anatomage tablets for high school science classes, youth frontier courage and kindness retreats for middle school students, guest speakers for classes, theater program support, an active calming center for special education students, young authors conference, one act play scripts, student activity fees for low-income students, winter clothing for students in need, and nature, history and art-based field trips. The foundation's annual walkathon was held in september with students, staff, and families in the community participating. The walkathon funds projects and activities in teacher's classrooms. These monies are critical in providing enhanced opportunities for the students of south…
$692,672 spentof which $599,899 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $692,672.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.2M to $12M (+27%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $27k → $138k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL 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
SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 61% · 2019 54% · 2020 57% · 2021 96% · 2022 25% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL 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 $241k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 204 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 204 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL 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.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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 SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,291,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($841,770). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,291,936 in grants to SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $841,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH ST PAUL EDUCATIONAL 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.
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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 16 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