Clb Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811617742
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Excelsior, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513323537
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,792,215
- Expenses
- $1,877,590
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,377,805. The stated grant purposes included pastoral support activities in latin america, community and children's after-school programs, and children's camp, plus 10 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 83% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 73
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 47
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 73.4%; rating input score 73; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 17.48; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 47th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 47/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.