Minnesota · Nonprofit
TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School
TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,128 to it, the largest being ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ($5,051). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School does
Mission
To provide students with a personalized and flexible online education that will prepare them for future success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
TRIO is an online high school serving students in grades 9-12. TRIO's mission statement is "to provide students with a pernsonalized and flexible online education that will prepare them for future success." Staff retention and steady enrollment are the hallmarks of service accomplishments for the year. Continued work on providing varying levels for support for students is also noted.
$2,229,829 spent$24,697 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,229,829.
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 $2.9M to $3.7M (+29%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 83% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jennifer Lake
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $21 → $19.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School’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
TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.
- Department of Education$103k
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 TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Wolf Creek · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School: 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 TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School?
- TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,128 to it, the largest being ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ($5,051). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,128 in grants to TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School?
- ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,051 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning Charter School 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 2 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