Minnesota · Nonprofit
Together For Life Northland
Together For Life Northland (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,650 to it, the largest being ARSHER CHARITABLE TRUST ($210,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $423k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $790k
- Net assets
- $366k
What Together For Life Northland does
Mission
The Star of the North Maternity Home provides safe homes and programming for pregnant women and women with young children experiencing housing instability to improve their health and and the health of their children, while moving toward self-sufficiency
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assist 18 women and 21 children who were residents at SON. Through 24/7 supervision and support, we assist our residents in addressingservices. their immediate needs; assist to ensure attendance medical, dental , mental health and/or recovery appointments (Goal met = 96%); assist residents in developing their Life Care Plan and translate it into a 3-phase program that moves our moms toward their goals with the help of mentor (Avg Phase 2) and a Life Coach (attend 90%); and provide onsite training in health, nutrition, parenting, childcare, and life skills (attendance =>95%). We provide care coordination and connections with existing community and government 96.5%, exceeding our 95% target.
$315,327 spentof which $200,329 as grants100% of program spendingSON Iron Range We purchased, completed major renovations of $186k and moved into a 6 bedroom maternity home grant funded through support from SLC and private grants. Our SON IR home can assist Moms with more than one child. We assisted 7 women and 10 babies/children during the year. We had 4 Moms who stayed over a year in the program working towards independence. The Moms and staff love the home like environment as we moved from leased apartments to a real home. They now can cook together, hang out and the courtyards provide a safe play area for our children.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSON Twin Ports Assisted 11 moms and 9 children during FY 23-24. We had Moms who were able to enroll in college and begin their educational journey to self sufficiency. We assisted pregnant women and most moved to independent housing after leaving us. Residents prepare their own breakfasts, lunches, and snacks, and plan the dinner menu and prepare the evening meal together. By doing so, they learn how to plan and prepare nutritious, cost-effective meals for themselves and their children. Onsite training provided skills in health and nutrition, budgeting, dental care, parenting, and more. We had mission teams support us with outdoor projects and we added a new driveway to our home which helps with off street parking for the safety of Moms and Staff/Volunteers.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $315,327.
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 2020 to 2021, from $24k to $483k (+1940%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Together For Life Northland’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Lyle Johnson
Interm Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $222k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Together For Life Northland’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
Together For Life Northland has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
50% 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 Together For Life Northland.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 62% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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 Together For Life Northland's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of Together For Life Northland's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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
Together For Life Northland has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Together For Life Northland
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Together For Life Northland: 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 Together For Life Northland?
- Together For Life Northland (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $789,650 to it, the largest being ARSHER CHARITABLE TRUST ($210,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Together For Life Northland have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $789,650 in grants to Together For Life Northland, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Together For Life Northland?
- ARSHER CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Together For Life Northland 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 2020–2025), 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