ELY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

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2025 · Form 990 · revenue $1.8M · expenses $384K · assets $5.2M

EIN

06-1770182

Address

760 E MINERS DR, ELY, MN 55731-1400

Website

WWW.ELYACF.ORG

NTEE code

T12 Fund Raising and Fund Distribution (Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations) published (IRS Business Master File)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

January 2013 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt: reinstated May 15, 2010 after an automatic revocation on May 15, 2010 IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Principal officer

Jeff Sundell (its 2021 Form 990-N)

Form 990-N e-postcards

1 filed, 2021 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗

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Mission

TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE ELY, MN AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES BY ESTABLISHING PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES THAT IMPROVE THE WELL-BEING OF OUR CITIZENS AND THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF BOARD DESIGNATED GRANTS.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 14 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

14 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• ROTARY CLUB OF ELY MINNESOTA INCORPORATED Ely, MN · 4 people in common (Heather Fitzgerald, Jeff Sundell, Kurt Soderberg)
• WELL BEING DEVELOPMENT Ely, MN · 2 people in common (Heather Fitzgerald, Julie Hignell)
• HAPPY DAYS LEARNING CENTER INC Ely, MN · 1 person in common (Allison Heiman) · related organization (Schedule R)
• NORTHWOODS PARTNERS Ely, MN · 1 person in common (Heather Fitzgerald)

Funders of this organization

5 grantors reported grants to this organization, $1,452,801 in all, tax years 2013 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

State business registration

• ELY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. MN, Nonprofit corporation (domestic), Active, formed 2006-02-14

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.