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NORTHWOODS PARTNERS

EIN 41-2016401 ELY, MN

Revenue 2025
$428,602
Expenses 2025
$274,195

Program services were 75.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P74
Classification
1000
Street
760 E MINERS DR

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 · 2025

Mission

To provide resources that promote independence and healthy aging.

  • In 2025, Northwoods Partners recruited, trained and coordinated 100 volunteers. Of those enrolled in our volunteer program, 85 served as active volunteers, providing essential support to older adults across our service area. Volunteer coordination and time management are tracked through our Elderberry software system, which ensures effective scheduling, accountability, and program oversight.

    Expenses $206,585 · Revenue $428,602

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Heather Fitzgerald

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • Mary Zupancich

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Dave Nichols

    Incoming Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Richard Flesvig

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Abby Sirek

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5.75

  • Caroline Owens

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Braun

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Evelyn Kuzma

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • Kathy Nieman

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marge Forsberg

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Sheila Gruba

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6.5

  • Sid Thomson

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Walt Leino

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Norcross

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Lisa Porthan

    Excecutive Director

    Total calculated
    $94,007
    From this org
    $94,007
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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, 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $428,602
    Expenses
    $274,195
    Contributions
    $345,915
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $291,584
    Expenses
    $250,706
    Contributions
    $229,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $313,226
    Expenses
    $244,483
    Contributions
    $259,971
    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
    $253,469
    Expenses
    $183,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,032

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,224
    Expenses
    $171,165
    Assets (EOY)
    $395,237

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $184,709
    Expenses
    $159,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,015

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,445
    Expenses
    $176,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $172,699

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $170,875
    Expenses
    $164,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,725

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $123,574
    Expenses
    $109,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,478

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $115,380
    Expenses
    $98,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,634

  • 2010 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,678
    Expenses
    $91,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,456

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

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.