Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE WILDLING
THE WILDLING (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,616 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($44,316). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Wildling does
Mission
The Wildling is on a mission to empower youth to share bravely from their lived stories in a safe and meaningful way. We help kids and teens craft their narratives and express out loud, encouraging them to speak their minds, trust each other, and feel the power of being heard. We are a nonprofit organization, a program, a movement, a way of tapping into wellness through storytelling.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We bring over 105 years of education and nonprofit experience across our founders, educators, and Story Coaches. We have reached 24 schools in the area and completed 17 workshops reaching over 400 youth in our community. We champion a diverse and inclusive approach to building community across our youth programs. The Wildling has existing relationships with the YMCA, Minneapolis Parks, The Children's Theatre, and more. We have the skillset, reach, and mission to grow our evidence based program through partnerships in both the public and private sector.
$55,777 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,777.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Megan Kaplan
Director, Founder / Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of THE WILDLING’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 WILDLING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 WILDLING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 79% · 2023 100% — 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
THE WILDLING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like THE WILDLING
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WILDLING: 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 WILDLING?
- THE WILDLING (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,616 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($44,316). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WILDLING have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $57,616 in grants to THE WILDLING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WILDLING?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,316 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WILDLING 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 3 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