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WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES

WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,139 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($97,629). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$23M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$375k
Net assets
$15M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Wingspan Life Resources does

Mission

Wingspan Life Resources' mission is to inspire community by empowering people impacted by disabilities to live their best life. We are a non-profit organization that offers residential care in group homes and unit based services to adults with developmental disabilities. We are licensed by the state of minnesota to care for as many as 128 individuals in 35 residential facilities in the twin cities metro area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wingspan has a strong commitment to providing service to individuals with developmental disabilities (dd) offering a stable, safe and secure home with ongoing opportunities for personal growth, self-direction, fellowship and recreation. In addition, we provide services to individuals with dd living in their own home or apartment offering assistance in daily tasks such as budgeting, housekeeping and cooking, along with many opportunities in recreation and personal growth.we offer a variety of activities, such as: bowling, glee club, art activities, music & motion class, ladies day in and more. Our clients choose to participate in these activities as their interest directs. We also offer wingspan celebrations of all major holidays, an annual summer picnic/carnival, a talent show and a formal dance held at the marriott hotel. We have continued to offer our popular zoom activities, such as name that tune, would you rather and a weekly sing-a-long, introduced during covid isolation. The people we serve still really enjoy these activities and it continues to offer them and quick and easy way to connect with friends and have fun. We will continue these as long as people are enjoying…

    $18,838,050 spent$21,971,910 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,838,050.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.0M) Expenses 100 ($8.8M) Net assets 100 ($7.8M)2018 Revenue 108 ($9.7M) Expenses 108 ($9.5M) Net assets 109 ($8.5M)2019 Revenue 131 ($12M) Expenses 124 ($11M) Net assets 124 ($9.6M)2020 Revenue 135 ($12M) Expenses 131 ($11M) Net assets 134 ($10M)2021 Revenue 159 ($14M) Expenses 140 ($12M) Net assets 169 ($13M)2022 Revenue 142 ($13M) Expenses 153 ($13M) Net assets 154 ($12M)2023 Revenue 175 ($16M) Expenses 178 ($16M) Net assets 158 ($12M)2024 Revenue 201 ($18M) Expenses 202 ($18M) Net assets 167 ($13M)2025 Revenue 253 ($23M) Expenses 242 ($21M) Net assets 190 ($15M)
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Revenue (253)Expenses (242)Net assets (190)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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $18M (+25%).

$9.8M
$10M
$12M
$12M
$15M
$14M
$14M
$14M
$18M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$251k
’17
$212k
’18
$1.0M
’19
$697k
’20
$2.1M
’21
−$663k
’22
$227k
’23
$425k
’24
$1.6M
’25
0.7
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.

Board chair

Angela O'Neil

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111212121111121016
Joined·+2+4+0+0+0+2+0+6
No longer listed·14010120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $40k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES’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

WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

61% 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 WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES.

26%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 46% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 52% · 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

40% of WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

56% of WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
MA
NV
CT
MO
FL

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

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES

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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

55%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES: 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 WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES?
WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES (Minnesota) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $375,139 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($97,629). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $375,139 in grants to WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINGSPAN LIFE RESOURCES 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 16 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