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THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,417 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$514k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$719k
Net assets
$1.9M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What The Partnership Plan for Stillwater Area Public Schools does

Mission

To connect the community and its resources to stillwater area public schools to support exceptional learning experiences for students. We accomplish this by providing enhanced programs and innovative activities to benefit students and teachers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The partnership plan's mission is to connect the community and its resources to stillwater area public schools to support exceptional learning experiences for all students. We accomplish this by providing enhanced programs and innovative activities to benefit students and teachers. We have three primary ways to distribute funds for this purpose. 1. Classroom grants - awarded to teachers with great ideas to make learning more meaningful and engaging for students. During the 2024-25 school year, the partnership plan allocated 20 classroom grants and 2 sponsorships totaling 35,319. 2. Big impact grants - these are on-going programs affecting large numbers of students. These can be in a specific grade and/or across an entire school or multiple schools. The partnership plan funded 20 of these types of projects over the 2024-25 school year totaling 252,598. These projects included grants in our mental health initiative, stem, arts, music and theater projects, our continued support of the pathways program and more. It also included support for the first year of a three year project to improve literary resources in our middle and high school media centers. 3. Miscellaneous- our work…

    $318,685 spentof which $309,552 as grants$2,443 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $318,685.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($348k) Expenses 100 ($422k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 99 ($344k) Expenses 65 ($274k) Net assets 120 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 97 ($339k) Expenses 77 ($324k) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 72 ($251k) Expenses 56 ($235k) Net assets 109 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 86 ($300k) Expenses 61 ($259k) Net assets 140 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 121 ($420k) Expenses 87 ($365k) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 116 ($405k) Expenses 96 ($407k) Net assets 123 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 124 ($430k) Expenses 89 ($377k) Net assets 138 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 148 ($514k) Expenses 115 ($484k) Net assets 150 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (115)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $1.8M (+27%).

$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.8M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$74k
’17
$69k
’18
$15k
’19
$16k
’20
$41k
’21
$55k
’22
−$1k
’23
$54k
’24
$30k
’25
11
months of
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.

Board chair

Chris Otto

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131215151414171818
Joined·+1+5+4+3+2+5+5+4
No longer listed·22442244
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $40k → $138k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS’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 PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

33% 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 PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

31%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 25% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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.

How long its funders stay

67% of THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve11.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 19%Fundraising 15%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,417 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $719,417 in grants to THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 16 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