Minnesota · Nonprofit
SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA
SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,089 to it, the largest being BURNS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $160
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Sponsor a Family Minnesota does
Mission
Sponsor a family mn was essentially a conduit to connect financially needy local families to community sponsors who would buy clothing, household goods and grocery gift cards.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Match needy families in the community with sponsors who buy clothing, household items and food gift cards in the holiday season. Due to covid-19 in 2021 we accepted only gift cards or money to purchase gift cards instead of sponsors providing physical gifts.
$60,060 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $39k to $4k (−90%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $17.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SPONSOR A FAMILY 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
SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 49% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89 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.
Organizations like SPONSOR A FAMILY 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.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 SPONSOR A FAMILY 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 SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA?
- SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,089 to it, the largest being BURNS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,089 in grants to SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPONSOR A FAMILY MINNESOTA?
- BURNS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPONSOR A FAMILY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), 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