Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT
THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,924 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $300k
What The Dragonfly Project does
Mission
Provide a message of hope for those who are grieving.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our Dragonfly 'Message of Hope' story and keychain sent 10,775 packets to grieving families in 2025 impacting over 21,550 people. The packets were sent to family members of those found in obituaries from around the US and around the world.
$27,650 spent75% of program spendingAnnual Celebration. We celebrate the impact we have had on helping people deal with their grief and remember those who have died in years past. Our volunteers, members, and donors were invited and 58 attended in-person as well as 153 virtual attendees.
$5,092 spent14% of program spendingNewsletter. Our newsletter helps countless people in their time of grieving by sharing stories about loved ones and personal experiences with dragonflies. In 2025, we distributed 14,121 newsletters, benefiting more than 21,182 people.
$2,574 spent7% of program spendingPacket events and speaking engagements. We provide volunteer opportunities and speak to organizations. Volunteers assemble our Dragonfly "Message of Hope" packets. Our speaker explains our organization and how The Dragonfly Project gives provides a message of hope. We had 30 events in 2025, with 495 volunteer persons/hours.
$1,316 spent4% of program spendingBooks and music. We provide an illustrated book for children which explains the life of a dragonfly as it transforms from a dragonfly nymph into a glorious dragonfly. It is based on the dragonfly story we share in our cards. We also provide a Dragonfly Moments CD. This CD has a reading of the dragonfly story we share in our cards. Among other songs, it has a special song called Dragonfly Moments. This program provides people a way to understand their grief and to provide them comfort. This year we distributed 118 of The Dragonfly Door and The Dragonfly Secret books. We also distributed 18 of The Dragonfly Moments CDs.
$27 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,659.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $295k to $303k (+2%).
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.
86% of THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tara Morrison
Executive Director
Board chair
Emma De Bruin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $152.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 DRAGONFLY PROJECT’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
THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 DRAGONFLY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $674 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 DRAGONFLY PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT
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
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT: 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 DRAGONFLY PROJECT?
- THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,924 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,924 in grants to THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DRAGONFLY PROJECT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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