Minnesota · Nonprofit
UPLIFT NORTH
UPLIFT NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,762 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($116,550). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $917k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $488k
- Net assets
- $887k
What Uplift North does
Mission
Uplift North is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose volunteers feed and clothe children, enhance and enrich education, and support and serve our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clothes for kids - provides new school uniforms, casual clothing, spirit wear, winter wear and hygiene items to our school partners ensuring that every child arrives at school ready to learn. In 2024-2025, clothing was provided to over 3,035 students at our partner schools in minneapolis, richfield, and st. Paul.
$159,248 spent22% of program spendingFood for kids - distributes weekend food to students and young adults experiencing food insecurity. In 2024-2025 9,579 weekend food packs were delivered to over 300 recipients at 4 minneapolis schools. In partnership with every meal, 2,005 weekend food packs were provided to 80 students at bethune and emerson elementary schools and 1,236 additional summer meal bags were provided through libraries in north minneapolis. In partnership with oasis for youth, we provided easy to access, heat, and carry food items to be distributed by oasis for youth staff to homeless and highly mobile youth ages 16-24 in bloomington, edina, and richfield. In 2024-2025, 491 youth received food items through this partnership.
$176,897 spent24% of program spendingLinks to learning - awards grants to teachers and staff for enrichment projects that improve student achievement, build community and enhance curriculum. In 2024-2025, we awarded 141 grants that positively affected 18,516 students in minneapolis, richfield, st. Paul, and south st. Paul.
$127,285 spent18% of program spendingAcademic all stars - recognizes students for achievements as determined by school staff, because every child can achieve something. In 2024-2025, a total of 7 recognition events were held at the four participating schools. A total of 308 minneapolis and st. Paul students were honored in grades prek-5. They each received an aas shirt, wristband, framed photo and certificate. Literacy plus - provides one on one literacy mentoring, author visits, special events and books to take home at bethune elementary school. In 2024-2025, 40 second grade students each received 17 books throughout the year, for a total of 680 books. Students at bethune also received access to two web-based interactive reading programs (reading a-z & raz kids). All of bethune's 16 classrooms/teachers and their 288 students benefited from these interactive programs. Our school reads - encourages a love of reading and builds community by providing books to an entire school or community of students. In 2024-2025, 1,989 books were distributed to students in the minneapolis, richfield, south st. Paul and st. Paul public school districts. Start smart - provides essential items to promote academic success and to support…
$262,305 spent36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $725,735.
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 2022 to 2023, from $737k to $1.2M (+65%).
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.
52% of UPLIFT NORTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $11k → $103k.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 UPLIFT NORTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. 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
UPLIFT NORTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
67% 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 UPLIFT NORTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 34% · 2019 30% · 2020 40% · 2021 29% · 2022 34% · 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
44% of UPLIFT NORTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
63% of UPLIFT NORTH'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 $179k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UPLIFT NORTH has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UPLIFT NORTH
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 UPLIFT NORTH: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTH?
- UPLIFT NORTH (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,762 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($116,550). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UPLIFT NORTH have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $487,762 in grants to UPLIFT NORTH, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPLIFT NORTH?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $116,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPLIFT NORTH 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.
Play a game about who funds Uplift North →
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 30 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