Minnesota · Nonprofit
WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being ASTERA HEALTH ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $126k
What West Central Economic Development Alliance does
Mission
Our mission is about working together to create an economically vibrant region. Were partnered with the regions small business development centers workforce center county and city economic development authorities technical and community colleges the University of MN Extension and many other non-profit organizations working to improve economic conditions and quality of life in our region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Economic Development - Our mission is about working together to create an economically vibrant region. We are partnered with the regions small business development centers workforce center county and city economic development authorities technical and community colleges University of MN Extension and many other non-profit organizations working to improve conditions and quality of life in our region.
$94,839 spent84% of program spendingAdministrative & General
$17,402 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,241.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $79k to $108k (+37%).
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.
25% of WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $8k.
From the IRS filings of WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’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 WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: 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 WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being ASTERA HEALTH ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,500 in grants to WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- ASTERA HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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 2021–2025), 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