What grants and 990 filings reveal about Cooperation Cannon River's donors and spending in 2024–2025?
Executive summary
Cooperation Cannon River’s public financial trail for 2024–2025 is thin: available records show at least one IRS Form 990 processed in August 2025 but independent charity-data services say the organization has only one electronically filed year on record, limiting what can be learned about specific donors and granular grant spending from those filings alone nonprofits/organizations/820852275/202542189349300939/full" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[1] [2]. Because standard disclosure channels (Form 990, Schedule A/C, and donor schedules when present) are the primary sources for donor and grant detail, the scarcity of multi-year e-filed returns means definitive claims about 2024–2025 donors and grant recipients cannot be fully substantiated from the public record cited here [3] [4].
1. What the filings that exist actually show
ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer lists a “full filing” for Cooperation Cannon River that was processed by the IRS and shows a filing date in August 2025, indicating the organization has at least one Form 990 in the IRS-processing database for that period [1]. GuideStar confirms the group is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990‑EZ, and indicates its platform will surface 2022–2024 forms to logged-in users, suggesting filings exist but are not fully public through every aggregator without account access [5]. Charity Navigator explicitly notes the organization cannot be evaluated under its finance/accountability methodology because it has only one year of electronically filed Form 990 data, which underscores the limited longitudinal record available to researchers [2].
2. What the filings do not reveal (and why that matters)
Form 990s can disclose revenues, major grants, certain contributors, and functional expense breakdowns, but only when those schedules are completed or when an organization meets thresholds that require donor/grant disclosure; the datasets linked here do not include a multi-year, fully itemized set of schedules that would let an analyst trace 2024–2025 donor names or granular grant recipients with confidence [3] [1]. Charity and nonprofit-data platforms repeatedly warn that single-year or partially processed filings limit trend analysis and accountability scoring, meaning absence of a detailed public 990 does not prove absence of donations or grants—only absence of published detail in the sources reviewed [2] [5].
3. Donor anonymity, donor-advised funds and common disclosure gaps
National data-aggregation practices and IRS rules mean donors who give through donor-advised funds, pass-through intermediaries, or restricted grants to a fiscal sponsor may not appear as named individual or foundation donors on an organization’s 990; Candid and other services note their databases sometimes capture more recent or self-reported contributions than raw IRS filings, but those richer feeds are not quoted here for Cooperation Cannon River specifically [6]. In short, even a legitimate pattern of grant funding can be obscured by the vehicle of the gift and by limited e-filing visibility in public aggregators [6] [3].
4. What can reliably be concluded about 2024–2025 spending
From the available public notes, only cautious conclusions are supportable: Cooperation Cannon River filed at least one Form 990 processed in August 2025 and is required to file annual returns under IRS rules; Charity Navigator and ProPublica data show only one electronically processed year is available for scoring, so a comprehensive review of 2024–2025 programmatic spending, administrative expenses, or donor-by-donor contributions is not possible from these sources alone [1] [3] [2]. The IRS instructions for 2024–2025 filings explain options for short years and what schedules report, but they do not substitute for the missing line-item data for this organization [7] [8].
5. Reporting limits, alternative sources, and next steps for verification
Given the evidentiary gaps, further verification would require: obtaining the PDF copies of the organization’s 2024 and 2025 Forms 990 or 990‑EZ directly from the IRS, GuideStar/Candid premium access, or the nonprofit itself to inspect Schedules B/C/D for donor and grant detail; checking Minnesota state charity filings or grant announcements for local foundations; and searching donor-advised fund grant tables from large funders that sometimes list subgrants to grassroots groups—none of which are contained in the public snippets cited here [1] [5] [6]. Reporters and auditors should treat the current public record as incomplete rather than definitive, and disclose that limitation when drawing conclusions [2] [4].