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EVOLVE ADOPTION & FAMILY SERVICES

EIN 41-1296959 STILLWATER, MN

Largest nonprofits in Minnesota

Revenue 2023
$2,756,985
Expenses 2023
$2,370,006

Program services were 83.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P31Z
Classification
1000
Street
5850 OMAHA AVE N

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 · 2023

Mission

To achieve a world where everyone has nurturing, permanent, and supportive familial relationships by providing a full breadth of inclusive, ethical programming in: adoption, foster care, pregnancy support, youth services, cultural support and education.

  • Foster Care: EVOLVE's Foster Care Programs include traditional foster care, kinship care, respite care and emergency shelter care. We work to recruit and prepare families who are willing and able to provide a nurturing, supportive and affirming environment for children and youth, many who have experienced significant trauma, usually between the ages of 10-18 years old. We conduct home studies to ensure that the families we license are prepared to support the children and youth that will be in their care. This is also done through training and classes that include knowledge with diverse (cultural, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and handicapped individuals) families. The ultimate goal of foster care is high quality temporary care while the children's family get the help that is needed for the children to be back under their care.

    Expenses $941,707 · Revenue $821,625

  • UMOJA MN: EVOLVE provides a variety of in-person and virtual engagement, with specialized programing for varying age groups created to connect Black youth with their culture and community, while empowering and educating adoptive, foster, and kinship families. EVOLVE provides two Black Heritage camps in the Twin Cities Metro Area, that empowers and educates Black fostered, kinship and adopted youth and their families with the Black community and culture in Minnesota. In addition to the camps, we have programs that helps these connections throughout the year. Black Teens in Action gives youth the opportunity to connect with other fostered and adopted Black teens and design a service project that they implement with the Black Community in Minnesota. EVOLVE has a Cultural Responsive Parenting Class that is aimed at caregivers who foster or have adopted black children. This helps them gain knowledge about the nuances of Black culture, racism, hypersexuality and hypermasculinity today. There are also other peer and support groups for caregivers and youth throughout the year.

    Expenses $518,607 · Revenue $704,961

  • Adoption Services: EVOLVE's adoption programs provide services to diverse populations through comprehensive training and counseling to ensure that families are fully equipped to meet the needs of a child and achieve permanency. Our services include domestic adoption, international adoption and adoption through foster care with our Minnesota Adoption Permanency Program (MAPP). MAPP is aimed at older children and teens whose parental rights have been terminated and under state guardianship.

    Expenses $242,617 · Revenue $194,030

  • Youth Services: EVOLVE youth services programs include; child-specific recruitment (CSR), social-medical histories (SMH), and successful transition into adulthood (STAY). Through SMH, EVOLVE completes interviews with foster providers and birth families, as well as requests health, school and any informative needed records to ultimately write and provide a comprehensive health and birth history for youth who have been in the foster care system. CSR helps children that are needing permanency be part of the process in finding families that will fit and work with their unique authentic self. STAY helps foster and former foster youth find success as they transition out of state care and into self-care. We do this by comprising individual plans through one-on-one meetings or group meetings. These youth are also able to be part of a Youth Council that helps youth aging out of foster care like themselves. EVOLVE provides services to youth between the ages of 14 - 22, who are currently or were formally in foster care. The goal of this service is to assist youth in successfully transitioning to adulthood.

    Expenses $264,131 · Revenue $750,445

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Susannah Barnes

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $110,219
    From this org
    $102,519
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,700
    Hours/week
    40
  • Torion Amie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Betsy Williams

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Sainsbury

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jill Kuykendall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tori Hensley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Saolia Tucker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elisabeth Zarnoti

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Colleen Madison

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Catherine McComb

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lindsey Niswanger

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,756,985
    Expenses
    $2,370,006
    Contributions
    $282,303
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,656,768
    Expenses
    $2,891,703
    Contributions
    $319,436
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,638,511
    Expenses
    $2,940,870
    Contributions
    $316,950
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,134,814
    Expenses
    $3,076,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,304,116
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,131,045
    Expenses
    $2,979,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,481,242
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,826,235
    Expenses
    $3,230,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,263,570
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,401,899
    Expenses
    $3,252,295
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,529,615
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,476,732
    Expenses
    $2,442,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $980,956
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,687,016
    Expenses
    $1,531,908
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,005,793
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,256,493
    Expenses
    $1,448,551
    Assets (EOY)
    $863,710
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,350,964
    Expenses
    $1,568,687
    Assets (EOY)
    $935,186
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $763,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,910

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.

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.