Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA
THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,200 to it, the largest being Hunter Houle Memorial Foundation ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $208k
What The Education Foundation of the Forest Lake Area does
Mission
The Education Foundation of the Forest Lake Area (teffla) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that supports education and community activities in the forest lake, minnesota, area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundations efforts bring together community, private sector and school system resources by: investing in initiatives that enhance our communities educational opportunities; awarding grants and providing assistance to individuals and programs, and; supporting ideas that promote innovation and academic excellence.
$57,296 spentof which $46,354 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,296.
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 2017 to 2018, from $148k to $178k (+21%).
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.
88% of THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kelly Tschudy-Lafean
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $8k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA’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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 67% · 2022 71% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA
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
93%
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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA: 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA?
- THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,200 to it, the largest being Hunter Houle Memorial Foundation ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,200 in grants to THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA?
- Hunter Houle Memorial Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA 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 2017–2025), 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