Minnesota · Nonprofit
Valley Outreach
Valley Outreach (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,299,398 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,755,780). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Valley Outreach does
Mission
We help people move their lives forward through basic needs services and personalized support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food Programs: Valley Outreach helps thousands of individuals and families access the healthy food they need. This year, we provided over 2.4 million pounds of food, equal to nearly 2 million meals. More than 7,400 households turned to Valley Outreach for support. We offer clients several ways to access food, including our on-site food shelf and curbside pick-up. Our new appointment scheduling system, launched last year, made connections even easier. The system supports multiple languages and lets clients book, cancel, or reschedule appointments via their preferred method, like text or email. We also bring food directly to where people live, including twice-monthly visits to a local mobile home community.(Continued on Schedule O)
$2,432,507 spent57% of program spendingClient Support Services: Last year, Valley Outreachs Client Support Services team provided services to families who received homelessness prevention support. Clients most often seek assistance with housing, utilities, and transportation, and our work centers around three key areas: case management, financial assistance, and resource advising. In Homelessness prevention efforts continued as subgrantee of the Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) through Washington County, strengthening our ability to address housing instability in a region facing some of the highest housing costs in the state. Our case managers offer personalized, one-on-one support to help individuals and families maintain stable housing and avoid homelessness. (Continued on Schedule O)
$987,172 spent23% of program spendingClothing Program: This year, we distributed approximately $673,000 worth of items through our thrift store, StyleXchange - with most items provided at no cost to clients, including warm winter gear like coats, hats, and gloves to help families stay safe and warm through Minnesotas cold months. Clients can shop using easy-to-use vouchers and no longer need an appointment - offering greater flexibility and convenience. Expanded store hours and discounts, made it easier than ever for clients and the public to find what they need. Selling about $20,500 worth of items also helped us raise funds to support our broader programs. Whether its outfitting kids in clothes that fit or helping adults find appropriate workplace attire, StyleXchange supports the whole family. All client services at Valley Outreach remain free of charge.
$861,023 spent$20,500 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,280,702.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $3.2M (+33%).
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: 2021 26% · 2023 14% · 2024 13% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Valley Outreach’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Tracy Maki
CEO
Board chair
Eliza Chlebeck
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $124k → $783k.
17 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Outreach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 Outreach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
48% 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 Outreach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 91% · 2019 32% · 2020 19% · 2021 13% · 2022 38% · 2023 14% — 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
56% of Valley Outreach'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
93% of Valley Outreach's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Valley Outreach runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Valley Outreach
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Valley Outreach: 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 Valley Outreach?
- Valley Outreach (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,299,398 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($1,755,780). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Valley Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $6,299,398 in grants to Valley Outreach, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Valley Outreach?
- Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,755,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Valley Outreach 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 67 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