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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.

$451k
Revenue FY2022
25
Funders on record
$493k
Grants received
$43k
Net assets
19/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

UPTURNSHIPS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 19,715 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,715 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2018 Revenue 111 ($113k) Expenses 118 ($95k) Net assets 125 ($88k)2019 Revenue 285 ($290k) Expenses 210 ($169k) Net assets 298 ($209k)2020 Revenue 385 ($392k) Expenses 406 ($327k) Net assets 390 ($274k)2021 Revenue 485 ($493k) Expenses 649 ($522k) Net assets 349 ($245k)2022 Revenue 443 ($451k) Expenses 812 ($653k) Net assets 61 ($43k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (443)Expenses (812)Net assets (61)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
17
$18k
18
$121k
19
$65k
20
$29k
21
$202k
22
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

18%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

MN
WI
SD
CT
CA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like UPTURNSHIPS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 30%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MN

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing