Minnesota · Nonprofit
Springbrook Nature Center Foundation
Springbrook Nature Center Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,747 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($46,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Benedictine Foundationlocal
- Northwest Area Jayceesportfolio match
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $11k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Springbrook Nature Center 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
Springbrook Nature Center Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 59% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of Springbrook Nature Center Foundation's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Benedictine FoundationlocalMN · funds 25 organizations near you
- Northwest Area Jayceesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosso Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wildlife Support Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arp Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equinox Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rapp Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veverka Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald Weesner Charitable Tr Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angel Society of Fallbrookportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Springbrook Nature Center Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Springbrook Nature Center 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Springbrook Nature Center Foundation?
- Springbrook Nature Center Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,747 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($46,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Springbrook Nature Center Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $86,747 in grants to Springbrook Nature Center Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Springbrook Nature Center Foundation?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Springbrook Nature Center 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing