Minnesota · Nonprofit
WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS
WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($25). 0 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 FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25
- Net assets
- $-11721459
What Wonderful Foundations does
Mission
By meeting students exactly where they are and tailoring the educational experience to their particular needs, charter schools offer a proven path for kids from all walks of life to reach their full potential. Wonderful Foundations is a charitable organization dedicated to making charter school education available to kids across the nation.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Wonderful foundation owns and leases properties to charter schools and at the end of the bond term, it will transfer fee simple title of the leased property to the leasing charter school. In effect, the separate charter schools are acquiring their school sites. This structure reduces the transaction costs associated with having each charter school obtain separate financing, which is often prohibitively expensive. It also enables charter schools to have something that is both a frequent impediment to their mission and a significant benefit: permanency.
$17,420,383 spentThe revenue in excess of debt service and expenses is used for capital improvements to the charter school buildings and to make gifts and grants to its tax-exempt charter school tenants through the 'wfcs giving fund'. In addition, Wonderful Foundations (a) provides technical assistance to public charter schools; (b) conducts education and advocacy activities about and for public charter schools; and (c) provides grants to public charter schools to support innovative programs.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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. 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 $323M to $198M (−38%).
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.
0% of WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Troy Snyder
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS’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 WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS'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. $25 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS
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 WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS: 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 WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS?
- WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($25). 0 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 WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25 in grants to WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WONDERFUL FOUNDATIONS 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