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Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression and advance our collective liberation.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$928kHousing & Shelter$380kEmployment$193kEnvironment$138kHuman Services$99kCivil Rights$63kInternational$63kArts & Culture$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $125,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $128,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH ENERGY$45,000
MN350$20,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$20,000
CURE (CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVMNT)$20,000
HEALTH PROF FOR A HEALTHY CLIMATE$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE URBAN VILLAGE: $31k → 14%PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA: $40k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13k → 14%PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA: $16k → 11%PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA: $13k → 11%AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $77k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$926k · 11 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
29

Total granted

$926k
$914k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

91%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    New American Development Cente
    6× · 2017–2023 · $202k · revenue +656%
  • AC
    AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN
    4× · 2019–2023 · $186k · revenue ×12
  • HJ
    HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $123k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • LE
    Latino Economic Development Center
    one grant, 2020 · $91k · revenue -64%
  • AD
    AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +43%
  • BW
    Black Women's Wealth Alliance SBC
    one grant, 2020 · $69k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Lake Street Council

Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…

Community Improvement
3
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
4
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
7
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Near North Development Corporation

Inner-city housing and economic development focusing on low-income individuals.

Community Improvement
10
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

—
11
Nokomis East Neighborhood Association

Neighborhood revitalization and community engagement NENAs mission is to better the quality of life and build a sense of community pride by sponsoring actions which help our environment, businesses and homes. NENA invests in neighborhood…

Crime & Legal
12
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Christian Faith FormationRegional Business AdvocacyLegal Advocacy & JusticeYouth & Family Support Serv…Independent Charter Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,221

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New American Development Cente — $202,200 · EducationNew American Development …AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $186,200 · EducationAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION …AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $52,325 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPM…HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER — $123,225 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING JUSTICE CENTERLatino Economic Development Center — $90,665 · Housing & ShelterLatino Economic Developme…HOME LINE — $70,200 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINEHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $58,125 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACTION INCHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $35,625 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INCINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $30,200 · Housing & ShelterINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUS…EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC — $19,850 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterBlack Women's Wealth Alliance SBC — $68,650 · OtherBlack Women's Wealth Alliance …SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $56,700 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COM…COMMUNITY STABILIZATION PROJECT — $51,250 · OtherCOMMUNITY STABILIZATION PROJEC…ALL PARKS ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE — $40,000 · OtherALL PARKS ALLIANCE FOR CHANGELao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $39,935 · OtherLao Assistance Center of Minne…Harrison Neighborhood Association — $37,475 · OtherHarrison Neighborhood Associat…JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $63,125 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTIONSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $38,450 · OtherSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTSMETROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $24,050 · OtherASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $26,900 · OtherCAPI USA — $22,785 · Other+6 more — $67,440 · Other+6 moreAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $77,250 · Human ServicesAFRICAN DE…PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA — $68,125 · Human ServicesPUEBLOS DE…THE URBAN VILLAGE INC — $30,650 · Human ServicesTHE URBAN …NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $12,600 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHO…Frogtown Neighborhood Association — $35,625 · Community ImprovementFrogtown …WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION — $35,625 · Community ImprovementWEST SIDE…NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $26,075 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE…Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association — $25,760 · Community ImprovementPowderhor…NORTHSIDE RESIDENTS REDEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $22,875 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE…METROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $15,625 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLI…WOMENVENTURE — $6,600 · Community ImprovementFRESH ENERGY — $65,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $20,000 · EnvironmentMN350 — $20,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $65,250 · Philanthropy
Education$440,725Housing & Shelter$440,390Other$536,760Human Services$188,625Community Improvement$168,185Environment$125,000Philanthropy$65,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew American Development Cente — $202,200 over 6y, 15% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $186,200 over 4y, 13% of budgetHOUSING JUSTICE CENTER — $123,225 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center — $90,665 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $77,250 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOME LINE — $70,200 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA — $68,125 over 3y, 31% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $65,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $65,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $63,125 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $58,125 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $56,700 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $52,325 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALL PARKS ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE — $40,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetLao Assistance Center of Minnesota — $39,935 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $38,450 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHarrison Neighborhood Association — $37,475 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $35,625 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFrogtown Neighborhood Association — $35,625 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION — $35,625 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE URBAN VILLAGE INC — $30,650 over 1y, 28% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $30,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $26,900 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $26,075 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPowderhorn Park Neighborhood Association — $25,760 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $24,050 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHSIDE RESIDENTS REDEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $22,875 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAPI USA — $22,785 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMN350 — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC — $19,850 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $15,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $12,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing — $12,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMN350 ACTION — $12,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOUR STREETS — $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWOMENVENTURE — $6,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $6,555 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Target FoundationOtto Bremer TrustFr Bigelow FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Headwaters Foundation…Greater Twin Cities U…Family Housing FundNorthwest Area Founda…Minnesota Voice
The McKnight FoundationMN66× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Family Housing Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · Minnesota Voice

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alliance for Metropolitan Stability funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alliance for Metropolitan Stability?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance for Metropolitan Stability through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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