Minnesota · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,161,106 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($9,133,662). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Special Olympics Minnesota Inc does
Mission
Special olympics minnesota's mission is to create a new world of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities. (expanded mission on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sports and training: in 2025, more than 6,900 special olympics minnesota athletes had the opportunity to compete in 21 sports at 23 invitational, 31 regional, and 20 state meets and tournaments, totaling more than 20,000 competition experiences throughout the year. Athletes train eight weeks for competitions and compete in skills-based competitions and full sports. Additionally, special olympics offers unified competitions which pair special olympics athletes with partners without intellectual disabilities. More than 1,000 unified partners competed alongside teammates - athletes with intellectual disabilities in 2025.(continued on schedule o)athletes are highly competitive and train using extensively codified rules and regulations. Due to a wide range of abilities, athletes are division into categories of similar skill level and are provided with additional opportunities to participate. Athletes who may not be ready or able to compete in full sports competitions, participate in skills-based competitions which break sports down into basic components.recreational sports continues to grow as an eight-week training model. This allows teams to participate in social and fitness…
$6,842,955 spent77% of program spendingYouth and schools: young athletes is an innovative, inclusive sports play program for children with and without intellectual disabilities, designed to introduce them to the world of sports prior to special olympics eligibility at age eight. Special olympics now welcomes future athletes ages 2-7 through this developmentally appropriate and inclusive play program by pursuing these goals: engage children through activities designed to foster physical, cognitive and social development; welcome family members of children with and without intellectual disabilities to the special olympics network of support; raise awareness about the abilities of children with intellectual disabilities through inclusive peer participation, demonstrations and other events. (continued on schedule o)in 2025 young athletes reached 4,000 participants in minnesota, resulting in over 33,000 experiences for these participants.special olympics minnesota is currently implementing the unified champion schools program funded through the office of special education programs at the us department of education. At the end of 2025, somn was working with 418 schools considered "unified champion schools" - a number that is…
$1,442,358 spent16% of program spendingHealth and leadership: the health programs initiative was created to include the three aspects of health and wellness within special olympics. First, the healthy athletes initiative, which offers health and nutrition screenings and education to persons with intellectual disabilities free of charge. The special olympics minnesota healthy athletes program completed 2,836 screenings (fit feet, fun fitness, health promotion, healthy hearing, opening eyes, med fests, strong minds and special smiles). The second aspect of health programs is the performance station initiative, which offers new educational and fitness experiences and opportunities to athletes, coaches, friends and family members; emphasizing the importance and relationship between wellness and sport performance. (continued on schedule o)the final components of health programs is the sofit & fit 5 health promotion initiatives. Sofit is a repeatable, eight week, unified team approach to wellness that aims to improve and protect the health and wellness for people with and without intellectual disabilities. Sofit creates the opportunity and space for education about, and practice of, wellness in all forms. Fit 5 is a tool and…
$570,693 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,856,006.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $9.7M to $13M (+39%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 12% · 2021 22% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
William Fish
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $899k → $2.5M.
23 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 66% · 2019 70% · 2020 52% · 2021 62% · 2022 64% · 2023 55% — 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
37% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA 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.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,161,106 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($9,133,662). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $16,161,106 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,133,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 175 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