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THE NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

EIN 41-1556013 BEMIDJI, MN

Revenue 2024
$11,071,050
Expenses 2024
$10,149,806

Program services were 73.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W110
Classification
1000
Street
201 3RD ST NW

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).

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.

  • JASON CARLSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • BRUCE REEVES

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • TODD BECKEL

    TREASURER (THRU 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • CONNIE LINDSTROM

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • CHERI GUNVALSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • ALISHA EVERWIND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • KAITLYN GRENIER

    DIRECTOR (THRU 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • CHRISTINE IMBRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • JILL JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • MIKE LAROQUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • KYLE LARSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • MICHELLE PAQUIN

    DIRECTOR (THRU 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • JACK SWANSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • KRISTI THORFINNSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • DEB ZAK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • KAREN WHITE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $205,483
    From this org
    $195,698
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,785
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,698
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,785
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $205,483

  • SHANNON MARTINUEAU JESME

    SENIOR VP OF FINANCE AND ADMIN.

    Total calculated
    $148,117
    From this org
    $139,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,067
    Hours/week
    40

  • MICHAEL NEUSSER

    VP OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $143,217
    From this org
    $133,432
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,785
    Hours/week
    40

  • CORY BOUSHEE

    DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $115,503
    From this org
    $106,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,242
    Hours/week
    40

  • BRENDA BRUGGEMAN

    CONTROLLER

    Total calculated
    $126,642
    From this org
    $119,474
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,168
    Hours/week
    40

  • DAWN GANJE

    SVP OF PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $118,945
    From this org
    $109,416
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,529
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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
    $11,071,050
    Expenses
    $10,149,806
    Contributions
    $5,409,181
    Grants paid
    $4,169,436
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,002,983
    Expenses
    $12,711,702
    Contributions
    $10,239,154
    Grants paid
    $7,156,783
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,810,635
    Expenses
    $8,791,846
    Contributions
    $6,142,623
    Grants paid
    $3,528,760

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.