Minnesota · Nonprofit
The Camden Collective
The Camden Collective (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,632 to it, the largest being UCARE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $29k
What The Camden Collective does
Mission
We strengthen community bonds and build self-reliance in North Minneapolis by bringing neighbors together to serve each other. We do this through a youth employment and mentoring program a food shelf and by hosting large community events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food Program: We operated a smaller weekly food shelf until April 2025. Our services reached 1,686 households by from August to January 2025 serving 7,966 people and giving out 24,146 pounds of food. This program will be different moving forward because we lost our rental space at the end of May 2025.
$25,962 spent78% of program spendingEvents: This fiscal year we hosted two major community events: a Fall Festival and a Thankgiving meal giveaway. The Fall Festival included a coat giveaway as well as a Trunk or Treat and was attended by well over 500 community members. We also hosted a food distribution at this event that served 178 households. At our Thankgiving meal event we packed and passed out Thankgiving meals for 115 families. Each meal included a frozen turkey a pie potatoes butter and stuffing along with a few other items.
$6,169 spent19% of program spendingYouth Employment Program: This year we reduced our youth employment program in size due to a restructuring of our food distribution program. We continued to mentor and work with two young Latina females assigning them greater roles in the organization as they took more responsibility for the food shelf. We paid a total of four youth as occasional contractors in addition to the two key employees referenced earlier. Some of the funding was tied to grants through the food program however and is not reported in this programs expenses.
$1,165 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $93k to $61k (−35%).
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: 2023 10% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of The Camden Collective’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Anna Gerdeen
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 The Camden Collective’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 Camden Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Camden Collective.
“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
The Camden Collective draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Against its field
The Camden Collective's revenue fell 83% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Camden Collective
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Camden Collective: 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 Camden Collective?
- The Camden Collective (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,632 to it, the largest being UCARE FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Camden Collective have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,632 in grants to The Camden Collective.
- Who is the largest funder of The Camden Collective?
- UCARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Camden Collective 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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