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VILLAGE RANCH INC

VILLAGE RANCH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$11M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Village Ranch Inc does

Mission

Provide troubled youths under court order a safe environment for education and spiritual renewal through a family oriented group home setting

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential programs: cokato: village ranch - cokato facility serviced a total of 75 clients (last year was 80 clients). The monthly average for population for cokato in 2024 was 30.2. This is up from last year's 28.9. The average length of stay was calculated to be 4.4 months. This is an increase from 2023 where it was 3.91 months. The overall successful completion of the program in cokato was 85%. This is up from last year's success rate of 71%. Cokato experienced 44 successful discharges and only 8 unsuccessful discharges. "hired two program directors to manage the facility. "hired additional part time and full-time staff to support the program. "vocational and virtues groups are improving. "residents participated in numerous community work service projects such as lake washington association clean up and painting of their building, cokato corn carnival clean up, winstock set up and clean up, dassel cemetery work (raised headstones), clearwater rodeo set up and clean up, cokato library (moved books), and numerous projects around the property of village ranch. Annandale: village ranch annandale house serviced a total of 37 clients for 2024. This is an increase of 2 clients…

    $4,080,191 spent$5,095,728 earned by the program
    80% of program spending
  2. Foster care program: "a total of 112 youth were served in the foster care program. This includes long term, short term, respite, emergency, and shelter placements. "roughly 13,175 administrative days billed. "7 finalized adoptions "6 placement disruptions: 2 youth runaways, 1 agency decision, sibling group of 3 - emergency placement, very high needs for the family to continue care with the other youth in their home. "closed 10 foster homes. Reason for closing: 4 closed after finalization of adoption, 2 retired from foster care, 1 marital issue that needed to be addressed, 1 to focus on needs of special needs child, 1 took no placements for over 2 years so agency discussed with them closing their license, 1 to focus on their own family (have now reached out to start the process to relicense again) "new licensed homes in 2024: 9 "word of mouth appears to be the best recruitment effort, always looking at additional ideas to recruit foster homes. "continued monthly support group and training via zoom. Training topics are established yearly; tim wright provided the training. There is a total of 8 training courses a year. On the off months, foster parents are sent training links for…

    $1,015,984 spent$1,406,351 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,096,175.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($7.7M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($7.6M)2021 Revenue 83 ($6.4M) Expenses 81 ($5.2M) Net assets 117 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 82 ($6.3M) Expenses 87 ($5.5M) Net assets 127 ($9.7M)2023 Revenue 90 ($6.9M) Expenses 93 ($5.9M) Net assets 141 ($11M)2024 Revenue 89 ($6.8M) Expenses 98 ($6.2M) Net assets 149 ($11M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (89)Expenses (98)Net assets (149)

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 $11M to $12M (+10%).

$9.6M
$10M
$11M
$12M
$12M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’20
$1.3M
’21
$795k
’22
$1.0M
’23
$639k
’24
12
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

Scott Bakeberg

CEO

Board chair

Tom Nelson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed101110911
Joined·+1+1+0+3
No longer listed·0211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of VILLAGE RANCH 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.

Where its funders are

100% of VILLAGE RANCH INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like VILLAGE RANCH 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

98%

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 VILLAGE RANCH INC?
VILLAGE RANCH INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VILLAGE RANCH INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to VILLAGE RANCH INC.
Who is the largest funder of VILLAGE RANCH INC?
XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VILLAGE RANCH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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