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VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB

VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,356 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($245,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$419k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$692k
Net assets
$417k
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Valley Friendship Club does

Mission

Participation in Valley Friendship Club programs help children, teens and adults with disabilities develop important social and life skills; form supportive personal relationships and connections; and maximize their potential to be socially independent, active, contributing members of the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Life & social skills development: hub hangout, bingo, book club, garden club, saturday night fun (movie, game & karaoke nights), winter formal dance, holiday parties, dining club, cooking classes and cooking camp.

    $106,319 spent$28,490 earned by the program
    35% of program spending
  2. Artistic expression: weekly art classes, percussion club, theater class with illusion theater, annual variety show, and several summer camps: theatre, painting and music.

    $91,131 spent$13,448 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  3. Health & wellness: this program consists of fitness and yoga classes, outdoor adventures (snowshoeing, kayaking, hiking, ice fishing, fishing, sledding, and kids park playdates), and healthy relationships classes.

    $91,130 spent$24,751 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  4. Community connections: vfc develops community connections in several ways through local partnerships, volunteering in the community, parent to parent interactions, and special community events like the art showcase.

    $15,188 spent$457 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,768.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($150k)2020 Revenue 120 ($132k) Expenses 174 ($110k) Net assets 115 ($172k)2021 Revenue 180 ($198k) Expenses 207 ($131k) Net assets 159 ($239k)2022 Revenue 181 ($199k) Expenses 250 ($158k) Net assets 187 ($280k)2023 Revenue 260 ($285k) Expenses 401 ($253k) Net assets 208 ($312k)2024 Revenue 335 ($367k) Expenses 480 ($303k) Net assets 251 ($377k)2025 Revenue 382 ($419k) Expenses 600 ($379k) Net assets 278 ($417k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (382)Expenses (600)Net assets (278)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $174k to $240k (+38%).

$150k
$174k
$240k
$281k
$315k
$379k
$422k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 78% · 2022 63% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’19
$22k
’20
$67k
’21
$41k
’22
$32k
’23
$64k
’24
$40k
’25
13
months of
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

Karen Keenan

Executive director

Board chair

Tara King

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed879109
Joined·+3+4+2+1
No longer listed·4212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $17k → $105k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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

VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB.

35%
largest funder
64%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 55% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — 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

71% of VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

82% of VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
MO
MD
TX

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve13.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB?
VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $692,356 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($245,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $692,356 in grants to VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB?
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VALLEY FRIENDSHIP CLUB 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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