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Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund

Educate the public on issues of public concern, voters on voting and electoral process.

$286k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$286,200
Largest grant, FY2021
$286,200
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$25k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21
EducationHuman Services
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$286k100%
FY20201$31k100%
FY20192$170k50%
FY20181$650kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Public Benefit$1.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Minnesota Voice$770,000244%
North Star Prosperity$286,200151%
Minnesota Youth Collective Education Fund$50,000124%
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund$31,00012%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Tides Foundation
Tides FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund

How much does Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund give?
Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund reported 1 grants totaling $286,200 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (100%).
Who are Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2021: Minnesota Voice ($770k), North Star Prosperity ($286k), Minnesota Youth Collective Education Fund ($50k).
Does Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation.
Where is Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund based?
Alliance for a Better Minnesota Education Fund is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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