Minnesota · Nonprofit
TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS
TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,162 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($72,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Twin Cities Regional Science Fairs does
Mission
Education: grades 6 thru 12. The Twin Cities Regional Science Fairs (TCRSF) exists solely for the betterment of youth grades 6-12 in the Twin Cities area. Our mission is to promote hands on science learning activities and provide interaction with professionals, discussion of project goals, presentation of ideas, and project analysis for all youth in the Twin Cities area. We strongly support under-represented groups with financial assistance, mentor involvement, and project guidance. We strive to motivate, encourage, and support all efforts by a philosophy of, "Everyone who tries is a winner."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Partnerships in Education Programs: We served approximately 550 students from the Twin Cities who competed with science project displays and science research papers. We send at least 25% of our student competitors to advanced competitions at the state, national, and international levels. Doing a science project teaches and exercises cross disciplinary skills in reading, writing formal research papers, art & graphic design, math, statistics, computer science, critical thinking, logic, ethics, scientific methodology, research skills, the power of self discovery, general project planning skills, and public speaking including presentation of results to professional scientists. Doing a science project results in students who are practiced, skilled, self confident, and competent young leaders who have career goals and the preparation, discipline, and drive to attain them. Awards list is available on our website.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $240k to $210k (−13%).
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.
86% of TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
David Underbakke
Board Member & Database & Webmaster & Judging chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $33k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS’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 REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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
TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS has grown faster than half of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS
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.
Public support
86%
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 TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS: 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 TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS?
- TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,162 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($72,742). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $145,162 in grants to TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $72,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWIN CITIES REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRS 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing