Minnesota · Nonprofit
TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC
TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,004 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($350,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $629k
- Net assets
- $340k
What Tofte Lake Center Inc does
Mission
Tofte lake center is committed to supporting artists by providing a nurturing experience rooted in nature where artists of all disciplines and backgrounds feel safe to take a break from the "work" of art to play, feel inspired, and be rejuvenated. Vision: tlc envisions an interconnected world in harmony with nature, where artists are supported and celebrated and where taking a break is recognized as integral to the creative process.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization hosted artists from minnesota and across the country total artists served: 91, 66 from mn tlc's season consisted of 12 programmed residencies: tlc hosted three weeks of individual artist residencies for artists from across disciplines, geography, backgrounds, and stages of career, providing artists space and time to center their creative projects, and public opportunities to share their work with their artist colleagues and the local ely community. Thanks to the generous support from the minnesota state arts board, tlc hosted three funded residency programs. The first two were for bipoc artists and bipoc arts educators from around the state of minnesota to support and foster community for artists of color and ensure that they feel safe and welcome in nature. Tlc's third residency for parent artists brought artists with families up to the lake to create in intergenerational community, connect their children to nature, and focus on their work. The weeks featured a dynamic mix of playwrights, dancers, writers, visual artists, and multi-disciplinary artists. Tlc rounded out our residency seasons programming with three organizational retreats for local and national…
$201,123 spentof which $20,786 as grants$31,328 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $201,123.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $429k to $345k (−20%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 18% · 2023 4% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Sharee Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $27k → $219k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC’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
TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 78% · 2019 73% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 80% — 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
50% of TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
57% of TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $268k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC
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.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC: 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 TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC?
- TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,004 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($350,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $629,004 in grants to TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC?
- THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $350,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOFTE LAKE CENTER INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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