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Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$31MReligion$377kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
$205,898
Median grant
1
States reached
$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,171,043
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$912,185
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$666,146
ST OLAF COLLEGE$351,806
AUGSBURG COLLEGE$261,822
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY$252,593
MACALESTER COLLEGE$232,486
CARLETON COLLEGE$229,190
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$224,136
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$209,743
BETHEL UNIVERSITY$205,898
CONCORDIA COLLEGE$196,119
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY$183,264
COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA$178,650
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$153,270
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $445k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $352k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $932k → 11%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $240k → 14%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $241k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $351k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $915k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $1.2M → 14%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $231k → 14%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $236k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $327k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $912k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $1.1M → 14%GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $219k → 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $320k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $896k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $1.1M → 14%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $290k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $834k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $1.1M → 14%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $288k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $776k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $896k → 14%CARLETON COLLEGE: $233k → 11%MINNESOTA STATE SYSTEM: $675k → 14%CARLETON COLLEGE: $229k → 11%CARLETON COLLEGE: $218k → 11%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $253k → 14%CARLETON COLLEGE: $218k → 11%CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $237k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $666k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $649k → 14%AUGSBURG COLLEGE: $262k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $622k → 14%AUGSBURG COLLEGE: $258k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $612k → 14%AUGSBURG COLLEGE: $250k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $609k → 14%AUGSBURG COLLEGE: $231k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $573k → 14%AUGSBURG COLLEGE: $218k → 11%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $250k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $247k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $241k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $232k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $231k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $229k → 14%ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $224k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 25 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$33M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+36%

Still filing today

72%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +38%
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +37%
  • AU
    AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $896k
  • MS
    MN ST COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $153k · revenue +51%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
Luther College

Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…

Education
4
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
5
Bethany Lutheran College Inc

Bethany lutheran college provides christian higher education in a challenging academic environment where personal mentoring guides students to pursue knowledge, truth, and discernment for productive and fulfilling lives.

Education
6
Carthage College

Seeking truth, building strength, inspiring service - together

Education
7
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
8
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
11
Crown College

The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.

—
12
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Saint Benedict; the most unlike its peers is St John's University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of St Thomas: $3,731,668 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasST OLAF COLLEGE: $1,928,655 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $1,556,201 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGEAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,421,363 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYMACALESTER COLLEGE: $1,353,883 · EducationMACALESTER COLLEGEST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $1,287,281 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,280,592 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $1,238,260 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $1,123,499 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INCCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $956,765 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $908,528 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $737,960 · Education+13 more: $1,373,617 · Education+13 moreIndividual grant recipient: $6,060,149 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $4,369,276 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTACONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,143,978 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $895,945 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIESCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $857,235 · OtherCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL+22 more: $2,050,058 · Other+22 more
Education$18,898,272Other$15,376,641

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $3,731,668 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $1,928,655 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $1,556,201 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,421,363 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $1,353,883 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $1,287,281 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,280,592 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $1,238,260 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,143,978 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $1,123,499 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $956,765 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $908,528 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL: $857,235 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $737,960 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $593,904 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $344,959 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $153,465 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $15,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreck School: $14,528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $13,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $12,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED LAKE NATION COLLEGE: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $9,954 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $9,356 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE EARTH TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $4,574 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,557 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds St John's University ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Breck School ↗
  • Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way WorldwideThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Catholic Community Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…The K FoundationIbm International Fou…The US Charitable Gif…The Blackbaud Giving …CommunitygivingKopp Family FoundationBaird Foundation Inc
United Way WorldwideVA33.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Communitygiving · Kopp Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity?

    Find your warmest path to Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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