DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T310

Classification

1000

Street

324 W SUPERIOR ST STE 700

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• IN 2024, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDED $4,597,558 IN GRANTS AND $819,906 IN SCHOLARSHIPS. TOTAL GRANTS AWARDED (INCLUDING INTERFUND GRANTS) FOR ALL PROGRAM AREAS WAS $5,417,464 COMPRISED OF: 27% UNRESTRICTED FUNDS, 19% DESIGNATED, 18% FIELD OF INTEREST, 5% ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENTS, 15% SCHOLARSHIPS AND 16% DONOR ADVISED. THE LARGEST PROGRAM AREA SUPPORTED WAS HUMAN SERVICES WITH 38% OF GRANT FUNDS, FOLLOWED BY, 20% COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT , 15% EDUCATION, 13% IN SCHOLARSHIPS, 10% IN ENVIRONMENT, AND 4% IN ARTS. IN 2024, THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDED $392,015 SCHOLARSHIPS FROM ENDOWED FUNDS AND $41,000 FROM 4 TEMPORARY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS THAT THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIP SERVICES. IN ADDITION, THE FOUNDATION PROVIDED ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES FOR TWO AFFILIATED SCHOLARSHIPS TOTALING $244,833 WHERE ALL OF THE FUNDS ARE HELD BY A LOCAL BANK.

  Expenses $6,017,450 · Grants $5,417,464

• IN 2024, AS PART OF ONGOING STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFORTS, BOREAL WATERS MADE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO GRANTMAKING DESIGNED TO BETTER ALIGN RESOURCES WITH THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITIES SERVED. THIS INVOLVED RESTRUCTURING COMMITTEES TO INCLUDE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN THE AREAS WHERE FUNDS ARE DIRECTED (E.G., CHILDHOOD POVERTY, MISSING A SENSE OF BELONGING, ETC.). THE FOCUS AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY, RESILIENCE, BELONGING AND TRANSFORMATION WERE BETTER DEFINED THROUGH COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AND RESEARCH TO ENSURE EFFORTS ARE IMPACTFUL AND SUSTAINABLE. THE SECOND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS WAS ALSO MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE BY CREATING A LETTER OF INTENT PROCESS, WHICH ALLOWED FOR US TO GET BACK TO ORGANIZATIONS FASTER. THESE CHANGES ARE PART OF THE BROADER STRATEGY TO ENHANCE THE EFFECTIVENESS AND REACH OF BOREAL WATER'S GRANTMAKING, ENSURING THAT NOT ONLY NEEDS ARE MET, BUT EFFORTS FOCUS ON MEANINGFUL, LASTING IMPROVEMENTS.BOREAL WATERS CONTINUED TO BE RESPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES. LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES WERE DEVELOPED WITH COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS, SUCH AS NONPROFITS AT NOON, BE ON BOARD, AND OTHER PROGRAMS TO HELP NONPROFITS BUILD SKILLS AND PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP SOUGHT TO FILL A GAP FOR LOCAL NONPROFITS IN RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE AS TRUSTEES. COMMUNITY IMPACT PROGRAMMING IS IN ADDITION TO BOREAL WATERS ON-GOING GRANT AND SCHOLARSHIP ACTIVITY.

  Expenses $264,149

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,417,532

  Expenses

  $7,065,045

  Contributions

  $2,370,441

  Grants paid

  $5,417,464

• 2023

  Revenue

  -$3,259,349

  Expenses

  $3,953,430

  Contributions

  $5,974,789

  Grants paid

  $2,326,780

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,134,379

  Expenses

  $5,435,857

  Contributions

  $4,606,817

  Grants paid

  $3,793,353

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,039,912

  Expenses

  $3,990,376

  Assets (EOY)

  $108,779,368

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,605,705

  Expenses

  $4,210,634

  Assets (EOY)

  $93,106,016

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,862,131

  Expenses

  $3,904,374

  Assets (EOY)

  $82,887,562

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,033,718

  Expenses

  $3,841,018

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,292,781

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,073,788

  Expenses

  $3,690,175

  Assets (EOY)

  $72,250,518

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $224,190

  Expenses

  $4,867,405

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,973,810

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,259,071

  Expenses

  $3,115,348

  Assets (EOY)

  $62,026,974

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,380,146

  Expenses

  $3,077,885

  Assets (EOY)

  $60,958,936

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,827,455

  Expenses

  $3,271,237

  Assets (EOY)

  $58,697,197

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,900,014

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,678,765

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• CLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

  $256,981

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• CHUM

  $256,361

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $243,678

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL

  $210,524

  2022 · MUSIC CONNECTIONS FOR COOK COUNTY YOUTH; PROGRAM SUPPORT

• YWCA OF DULUTH

  $152,539

  2024 · COMM ECON DEV

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $132,299

  2023 · UMD ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP ON BEHALF OF MOLINE MACHINERY LLC, TWIN PORTS TEEN SCIENCE CAF, PROVIDING SUPPORT TO ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY, ADAPTIVE SAMPLER AND THE BOULDER LAKE ELC, BATS OF THE BOULDER LAKE MANAGEMENT AREA, TWEED MUSEUM OF ART, UMD DULUTH RAMSETER NORTHERN BIBLE SOCIETY BIBLE COLLECTION, SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT

• DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC

  $115,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS

  $103,943

  2024 · COMM ECON DEV

• CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION DBA MINNESOTA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT

  $100,000

  2024 · COMM ECON DEV

• ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING

  $94,726

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $115,100

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $102,541

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• GOLDEN BEAR FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · GRANT TO THE DULUTH SUPERIOR FOUNDATION FOR ENDOWED PURPOSES

• GOLDEN BEAR FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · CONTRIBUTION TO FOUNDATION TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION.

• THE FUNDERS NETWORK INC

  $30,000

  2023 · PPREP

• THIELEN FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  2024 · HAM FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $25,000

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• THE FUNDERS NETWORK INC

  $22,250

  2022 · PPREP

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $14,950

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $13,000

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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