- Revenue 2024
- $52,476,677
- Expenses 2024
- $51,094,373
Program services were 81.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 702 S 3RD AVE
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
Mission
Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (AEOA) strengthens communities by providing opportunities for people experiencing social and economic challenges.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Arrowhead Economic Opportunty Agency (AEOA) strengthens communities by providing opportunities for people experiencing social and economic challenges
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Housing Services Mission: To build our communities by helping people meet their needs, have affordable, quality housing, and improve their quality of living. Our services are available in Cook, Lake, and St Louis Counties. The Housing Services provided include Energy Assistance, Single-Family Rehabilitation, Weatherization, Business Energy Retrofit, Downtown Business Rehabilitation.
Expenses $9,516,693 · Revenue $10,387,225
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Arrowhead Transit Mission: To provide affordable, safe, accessible public transportation and supports independent living and self-reliance. Services provided, public transportation which is handicap accessible, for the residents of ten counties in Minnesota, the counties are: Aitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Cook, Itasca, Isanti, Koochiching, Lake, Pine and St. Louis. We provide flexible and affordable routes in every county, including Dial-a-Ride in several cities. In addition to public transportation Arrowhead Transit coordinates a volunteer driver program to meet medical needs in Koochiching, Lake, Carlton, and St. Louis Counties
Expenses $14,883,164 · Revenue $21,075,357
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Senior & Nutrition Services Mission: To help individuals meet the demands of daily living, improve the quality of their lives, and gain access to nutritious food. Our services offered are: Bone Builder exercise classes, Farmers Markets EBT clerks, Grocery Delivery services, SNAP Outreach and application assistance, Medical Loan Closet, Tax Assistance, Volunteer Services (AmeriCorps Seniors Arrowhead RSVP and Arrowhead Volunteers, and nutrition services for seniors including frozen bundled meals, Meals on Wheels, and Senior dining sites.
Expenses $3,295,804 · Revenue $5,190,254
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Head Start Mission: To work with young children and families on healthy pre-natal and early childhood development, school readiness, and supporting their success in life. Some of the programs Arrowhead Head Start has are pre-school center based, pre-school home base, and Early Head Start Home based.
Expenses $5,242,681 · Revenue $6,330,901
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Employment and Training Mission: To enhance the employability and skills of individuals so that they may achieve their life goals. Some of the programs included are Adult Basic Education, Career Force, Divisionary Work Program, Dislocated Worker Program, Homeless Youth Services, Dislocated Worker Program, Minnesota Family Investment Program, Minnesota Family Resiliency Program, Senior Community Service Employment Program, SNAP Outreach and employment services supports, and YouthBuild.
Expenses $3,694,124 · Revenue $4,333,262
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Housing Resources Mission: To empower our communities by connecting people to programs that help them achieve their basic living needs, affordable housing, and improve their quality of living. Our services are available in Cook, Lake, and St Louis Counties. The Housing Resources provided include Emergency & Transitional Housing, Homeless Youth Housing, Homeownership Education & Financial Assistance, Homeless Prevention & Re-housing, Housing Support Services for Adults with Serious Mental Illness, MNSure Marketplace Assistance, and Permanent Supportive Housing.
Expenses $4,984,772 · Revenue $5,159,679
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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Scott Zahorik
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $168,574
- From this org
- $156,253
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $12,321
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $156,253
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $12,321
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $168,574
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Cathy Pazzelli
Human Resources Director, Assistant Exec Director
- Total calculated
- $149,081
- From this org
- $138,275
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,806
- Hours/week
- 40
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Marilyn Ocepek
Senior Services Director
- Total calculated
- $138,256
- From this org
- $128,857
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,399
- Hours/week
- 40
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Emily Celley
Chief Financial Officer
- Total calculated
- $134,219
- From this org
- $125,046
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,173
- Hours/week
- 40
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Jan Francisco
Employment Director
- Total calculated
- $124,363
- From this org
- $116,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,863
- Hours/week
- 40
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David Johnson
Housing Services Director
- Total calculated
- $121,750
- From this org
- $114,059
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,691
- Hours/week
- 40
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Brandon Nurmi
Transportation Director
- Total calculated
- $118,624
- From this org
- $112,206
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,418
- Hours/week
- 40
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Emily Simonson
Planning Director
- Total calculated
- $110,152
- From this org
- $103,917
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $6,235
- Hours/week
- 40
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Angela Neal
Housing Resources Director
- Total calculated
- $103,040
- From this org
- $98,887
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $4,153
- Hours/week
- 40
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Gabriel Johnson
Headstart Director
- Total calculated
- $102,264
- From this org
- $99,430
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $2,834
- Hours/week
- 40
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Jesse Tweten
Information Systems Director hired November 2024
- Total calculated
- $94,362
- From this org
- $94,362
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Jeff Kletscher
Board Member-Chairperson
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Kevin Adee
Board Member-First Vice-Chairperson
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Laura Perry
Board Member-Second Vice-Chairperson
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Dana Waldron
Board Member-Board Treasurer resign Oct 2024
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Robert Hietala
Board Member - Treasurer Dec 2024
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Cherri Averill-Manner
Board Member - Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Ben DeNucci
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Cathy Zelinski
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Casey Venema
Board Memeber
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Keith Nelson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Les Northrup
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Michael Jugovich
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Paul McDonald
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Romit Jha
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
The first 25 listed. 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
- $52,476,677
- Expenses
- $51,094,373
- Contributions
- $41,214,030
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $49,872,927
- Expenses
- $47,162,572
- Contributions
- $38,022,042
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $47,080,713
- Expenses
- $43,144,453
- Contributions
- $36,334,438
- Grants paid
- $0
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $39,136,123
- Expenses
- $38,548,926
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,957,216
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $34,969,254
- Expenses
- $35,498,982
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,578,294
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $34,301,349
- Expenses
- $35,015,714
- Assets (EOY)
- $34,155,797
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $38,227,737
- Expenses
- $37,360,210
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,489,752
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $37,184,897
- Expenses
- $35,354,623
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,440,687
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $37,184,897
- Expenses
- $35,354,623
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,440,687
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $35,842,768
- Expenses
- $35,126,250
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,496,281
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $33,277,112
- Expenses
- $32,408,764
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,628,468
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $30,799,558
- Expenses
- $30,913,992
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,176,895
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $28,989,097
- Expenses
- $27,588,306
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,156,925
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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$197,507
2024 RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
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$160,347
2023 RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
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$148,025
2022 RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
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$75,000
2022 TO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ACROSS THE IRON RANGE.
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$58,925
2023 EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOOD SHELF GRANT
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2022 MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES
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$30,000
2023 TO SUPPORT THE TOWER AREA FOOD SHELF'S MISSION TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF TOWER, EMBARRASS, SOUDAN, AND THE BOIS FORTE RESERVATION.
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MINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER
$29,000
2025 HOMEOWNERSHIP ADVISOR NETWORK SUPPORT
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$20,000
2024 TO SUPPORT THE EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF AND THE INCREASING NUMBER OF VISITORS.
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$20,000
2022 TO PROVIDE WINTER OUTWEAR AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN POVERTY IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.