Minnesota · Nonprofit
STARBASE MINNESOTA INC
STARBASE MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,434 to it, the largest being MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $841k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Starbase Minnesota Inc does
Mission
To inspire and educate minnesota youth in science, technology, engineering and math (stem)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Starbase minnesota, inc. Is a dedicated stem education non-profit, partnering with the department of defense, minnesota air national guard, corporations, and community organizations. Their central aim is to ignite curiosity and empower youth in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (stem). The cornerstone of their efforts is the dod starbase program-a 20-25 hour immersive onsite stem experience. Students step into the vibrant, technology-rich environments at the minnesota air national guard bases: the 133rd airlift wing in st. Paul and the 148th fighter wing in duluth. Here, learning unfolds in ways that are both exciting and hands-on.alongside onsite programs, starbase continued to expand its reach throughout minnesota. Through its stem kit initiative, the organization provided stem kits and curriculum to more than 31,000 5th grade students and their teachers in 392 schools across the state in fy25. In st. Paul and duluth, starbase served a combined total of 6,698 students through five-day school year and summer onsite programs. Meanwhile, the starbase destination mars stem kits extended learning to an additional 35,000 students and their educators across…
$2,713,927 spentof which $6,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,713,927.
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 2021 to 2022, from $930k to $1.3M (+38%).
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: 2017 91% · 2018 89% · 2019 87% · 2020 94% · 2021 86% · 2022 80% · 2023 88% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of STARBASE MINNESOTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7k → $207k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 STARBASE MINNESOTA 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
STARBASE MINNESOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 STARBASE MINNESOTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 50% · 2022 42% · 2023 60% — 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
63% of STARBASE MINNESOTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
86% of STARBASE MINNESOTA INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
STARBASE MINNESOTA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like STARBASE 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STARBASE MINNESOTA INC?
- STARBASE MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,434 to it, the largest being MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARBASE MINNESOTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $841,434 in grants to STARBASE MINNESOTA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARBASE MINNESOTA INC?
- MEDTRONIC COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARBASE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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