Minnesota · Nonprofit
UPTURNSHIPS INC
UPTURNSHIPS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,903 to it, the largest being JULIE & DOUG BAKER JR FOUNDATION ($90,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Upturnships Inc does
Mission
Upturnships, inc. Prepares college students for success through training, coaching and paid interships during college.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
In 2022, 242 college students completed foundational training on their resume & interview skills. Students received professional training towards securing a full-time job in their field of study. Alongside training, students participated in 1:1 coaching provided by volunteers.
$439,167 spent$180,470 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $439,167.
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 2021 to 2022, from $246k to $43k (−82%).
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 30% · 2021 24% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of UPTURNSHIPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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
Liwanag Ojala
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $64k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 UPTURNSHIPS INC’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
UPTURNSHIPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
44% 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 UPTURNSHIPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 76% · 2019 25% · 2020 55% · 2021 29% · 2022 14% · 2023 39% — 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
40% of UPTURNSHIPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
64% of UPTURNSHIPS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
UPTURNSHIPS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 19,715 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,715 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like UPTURNSHIPS INC
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 UPTURNSHIPS INC: 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 UPTURNSHIPS INC?
- UPTURNSHIPS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,903 to it, the largest being JULIE & DOUG BAKER JR FOUNDATION ($90,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPTURNSHIPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $492,903 in grants to UPTURNSHIPS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPTURNSHIPS INC?
- JULIE & DOUG BAKER JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPTURNSHIPS INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 25 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