Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA
THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,970,008 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($966,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $217k
What The Network for Better Futures Dba Better Futures Minnesota does
Mission
Better futures fuels a man's desire to turn his life around and walk a new path toward better health and success. It also aims to change the costly practices that produce poor results and perpetuate cycles of dependency.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our integrated care team (ict) understands reintegration is essential for participant success. We strive to build healthy communities by walking alongside participants to help improve health and wellness, emotional intelligence, and community/family reunification. Our mentorship and coaching model is centered around a participant's individualize prosperity plan. Since its founding in 2007, better futures mn (bfm) has served over 1,300 men of diverse backgrounds with unique challenges and needs. The population we serve is often overlooked and discriminated against due to the stigma of having a criminal record. We embrace these men and help them find a better path forward. Addressing systemic poverty and structural racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into every aspect of our organizationby providing access to training, on the job training and employment, physical and behavioral health care, and a vibrant, supportive community for at-risk black men, bfm hopes to produce beneficial long-term outcomes not only for the men, but for their families and communities as well. The social enterprise division of bfm leads all trainings, certification, on-the…
$2,987,530 spent$502,999 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,987,530.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $1.6M (+52%).
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 28% · 2018 45% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 35% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Pj Hubbard
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Murray
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $338k → $641k.
5 of 27 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 NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA’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 NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 40% · 2019 53% · 2020 39% · 2021 32% · 2022 16% · 2023 30% — 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
31% of THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
74% of THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Prime Enterprise LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA?
- THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,970,008 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($966,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,970,008 in grants to THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $966,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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