Minnesota · Nonprofit
WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC
WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,284 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($40,780). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $681k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion Inc does
Mission
Western minnesota steam threshers reunion, inc. Is organized for the purpose of: a. Providing an opportunity for persons to annually gather to renew friendships, relive the past of the northern plains and honor the pioneers who settled this region; b. Acquiring, preserving and restoring antique items from this region for the purpose of demonstrating their use; and c. Providing a setting for people to perform the activities, crafts, and music of the pioneer days.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
The program service activity is the annual four(4) day early 20th century era exhibition which focuses on farming, lumber milling, railroading, and steam power.
$526,850 spent$414,847 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducational opportunities: university of rollag steam school is held fathers day weekend each year at steamer hill. It is a two-day course designed to provide the fundamental training, both hands on, and classroom to prepare new (or not so new) steam enthusiasts to be safe operators, and provide important information to aid them in preparation for their mn hobby boilers exam. During the course, you will learn the key points to safely operate a steam engine, and also learn the history and inner workings of the engines. In addition, there are hands-on sessions each day with our veteran operators to answer questions and provide some time on an engine to learn how they work. Students have the ability to practice on the prony brake, run an obstacle course and get up close and personal with the engines. While the course does not satisfy all the mn state requirements to take your test, it is a solid foundation on which to build your knowledge from. Wmstr is the only training approved by the state of minnesota not provided by a state- run entity
$3,999 earned by the programEducational opportunities: rollagology saturday and sunday morning 4-hour classes 1. Prairie tractors, giants pre-1920 2. Machine shop operations 3. Draft horses and horsepower area activities this is a list of the saturday afternoon 2-hour classes: 1. Safe hand cranking internal combustion engines 2. Ice cream making and scooping 3. Drill bit sharpening
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $526,850.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.6M to $2.9M (+11%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $7k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION 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
WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC?
- WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,284 to it, the largest being FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ($40,780). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42,284 in grants to WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION INC?
- FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN MINNESOTA STEAM THRESHERS REUNION 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.
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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 2 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