Minnesota · Nonprofit
Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School
Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,714 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($34,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $-1280649
What Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School does
Mission
Innovative education of the whole child through German immersion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Reporting Kinderclub extended care program as a separate Program Service. Expenses and revenues were included in the first Program Service on the prior year Form 990.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Twin Cities German Immersion School provides education to students in grades Kindergarten through 8 through German immersion curriculum. Average Daily enrollment for year end on June 30, 2025 was 558.
$7,548,558 spent$232,647 earned by the program95% of program spendingKinderclub is the TCGIS's extended care program. All students at the Twin Cities German Immersion School are eligible to register for care before and after school, as well as on early release days or school release days.
$436,990 spent$288,781 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,985,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $8.5M to $7.3M (−15%).
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: 2018 89% · 2019 90% · 2020 93% · 2021 97% · 2022 92% · 2023 89% · 2024 90% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Twin Cities German Immersion 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. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Zehnpfennig
Executive Director
Board chair
Kersten Reich
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $21k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Twin Cities German Immersion 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
Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% — 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
79% of Twin Cities German Immersion 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. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School's revenue grew 29% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Twin Cities German Immersion 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Twin Cities German Immersion School Building Company · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School?
- Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,714 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($34,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $73,714 in grants to Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Twin Cities German Immersion Charter School?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Twin Cities German Immersion 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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