Minnesota · Nonprofit
The Banyan Foundation
The Banyan Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,637,796 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($914,280). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The Banyan Foundation does
Mission
To transform lives by developing youth, strengthening families, and creating community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Services inspires young people to invest in themselves, education, and community. Youth are prepared to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through programs that cultivate social, emotional, and educational growth. Our youth have fun while they develop into committed learners. Youth attend programs to succeed in school, build life skills, develop assets, and cultivate healthy relationships.
$1,487,817 spentof which $162,570 as grants73% of program spendingCommunity Services is an essential part of the Organization's mission and is inseparable from the strength of our families and the success of our youth. The Organization connects members of the neighborhood with each other, creating connections that encourage communication and belonging. Building trust between residents, and training leaders on every block, brings hope and safety to every home. The Organization acts as a resource hub, connecting residents with support systems and equipping them as leading citizens.
$356,993 spent18% of program spendingFamily Services fosters hope with families by strengthening the relationship between parents and children. Our families have close bonds with staff that enable us to work together towards a brighter future. The Organization helps parents become advocates for their children in all arenas of life, while children become an inspiration to their parents. The Organization's families are future-oriented because they see and realize the new life-changing opportunities before them.
$184,048 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,028,858.
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 $6.8M to $6.4M (−6%).
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 7% · 2020 21% · 2021 17% · 2022 4% · 2023 25% · 2024 21% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of The Banyan Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Carl Schlueter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $670k → $1.3M.
12 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Banyan Investment Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Banyan Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of The Banyan Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
The Banyan Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
38% 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 The Banyan Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 9% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 26% — 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
65% of The Banyan Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
91% of The Banyan 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. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
The Banyan Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Banyan 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 The Banyan 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 The Banyan Foundation?
- The Banyan Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,637,796 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($914,280). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Banyan Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $7,637,796 in grants to The Banyan Foundation, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Banyan Foundation?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $914,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Banyan 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 74 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