Minnesota · Nonprofit
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,603,028 to it, the largest being WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,112,808). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Winona Volunteer Services Inc does
Mission
With dedicated volunteers and partners, we help people address life's challenges in a respectful and dignified manner. We do this through coordinated assistance, food programs, home delivered meals, special projects, nutrition education and clothes shop. Wvs relies on volunteers to provide direct assistance in our major programs. Wvs was recertified through the points of light foundation as a service enterprise organization. This demonstrates how committed wvs is to effectively delivering on our mission by aligning volunteer passions and skills with meaningful volunteer positions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wvs is the larger of two food shelves in winona county. An average of 1,301 households visited the food shelf each month, almost a 20% increase from 2024. 652 households received food from winona volunteer services for the first time, which is 35 fewer than in 2024. Qualifying households have incomes up to 300% of the federal poverty guidelines. For example, a single-person household making $45,180 annually ($21.72 an hour or less) or a family of four making $93,600 annually is income-eligible to use the food shelf.thanks to 7,415 volunteer hours, 688,379 pounds of food were distributed throughout the year, an increase of 3,087 pounds from 2024. Of the 653,879 pounds of food that came into the food shelf, almost 61% was purchased & free tefap products from channel one food bank, 21% was rescued food, 15% was community donations, and 3% was purchased from other vendors.out of the 135,389 pounds of food rescued, 36,730 pounds were from walmart, 26,759 from target, 20,385 from hy-vee, 20,160 from kwik trip, 12,756 from midtown, 9,574 from bluff country co-op, and 9,025 from aldi.
$884,499 spentof which $622,332 as grants69% of program spendingHome delivered meals began locally in 1971 and serves qualifying residents of the cities of winona and goodview. 100 individuals, 11 businesses/organizations, and 11 congregations served home delivered meals to an average of 101 homebound or convalescing individuals in winona & goodview every month. Clients either pay for their own meal at $6.25 or $6.75 with milk or are on a waiver through the county in which their insurance pays for their meals. The client services coordinator qualifies individuals for this program, monitors their meal requests, and reconciles the monthly billing with insurers and steak shop catering. Our bookkeeper sends the reconciled bills to the clients. Our program is not affiliated with the meals on wheels delivery service, which is federally funded, coordinated by semcac and serves people in greater winona county.
$183,908 spent14% of program spendingOver the last couple of decades, wvs developed the coordinated assistance program. Our partners- the local churches, law enforcement and other service providers- tell anyone looking for assistance that wvs is the one-stop-shop in winona county for people experiencing unexpected circumstances. Our client services coordinator utilizes a network of community resources to make appropriate referrals or issue vouchers according to specific guidelines. Since winona has abundant resources, referring individuals to our centralized hub saves everyone time, makes getting help simpler, and ultimately reduces duplication of services. Wvs is also fortunate that a specialized fund from the winona community foundation allows us to issue vouchers for gasoline, bus tickets, lodging, diapers, cab rides, clothing, rent, dental services and id's, etc. Based on each individual's challenging situations. Through the coordinated assistance program, 432 vouchers were issued to 508 households for gasoline, lodging, transportation, car repair, rent, & miscellaneous assistance totaling $36,431. This includes households who received vouchers to our clothes shop for $2,388 in free clothing. Law enforcement &…
$112,950 spentof which $45,560 as grants9% of program spendingThe clothes shopthe clothes shop reopened on july 1, 2024. Throughout the next six months, volunteers gave 2,743 hours selling 18,196 items totaling $77,520 in sales to support our operations. The clothes shop provides low-cost, high quality clothing to trendsetters, bargain hunters, the eco-friendly and anyone looking for a great deal 4,076 parcels were donated, sorted, and put out for sale during the short time we were open.holiday projectswvs staff coordinates the free congregate easter dinner, compliments of chartwells dining service out of st mary's university. Nineteen volunteers delivered 384 meals to winona residents on easter sunday. The lion's club and the elizabeth callender king foundation donated 500 ham meals including fresh produce.
$99,774 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,281,131.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $9.1M (+195%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
Sandra Burke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $71k → $430k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 46% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC'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
60% of WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES 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. Of the $1.5M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC?
- WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,603,028 to it, the largest being WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,112,808). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,603,028 in grants to WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC?
- WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,112,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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