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Be Here Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Youth Development$190kEducation$38kPhilanthropy$22kRecreation & Sports$20kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$5kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM$70,000
CAMP JORN YMCA$20,000
VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION$20,000
UNITED WAY CASS-CLAY$11,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$10,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$5,000
ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING$5,000
LIFE HOUSE$5,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
HEAD OF LAKES UNITED WAY$1,400
02The need
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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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 14%LIFE HOUSE: $5k → 15%UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%CAMP JORN YMCA: $20k → 10%NECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $70k → 14%UNITED WAY CASS-CLAY: $11k → 12%HEAD OF LAKES UNITED WAY: $1k → 15%NECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $65k → 14%ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $5k → 15%NECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $50k → 14%PBS NORTH: $3k → 15%VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $20k → 15%VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $18k → 15%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 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.

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United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
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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4
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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5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
6
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

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7
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
8
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
9
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
10
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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11
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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12
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing; the most unlike its peers is Volunteers in Education. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $185,000 · OtherNECEDAH SCHOOLS - AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMUnited Way of Cass-Clay: $11,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $3,900 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $37,500 · EducationVOLUNTEERS IN …CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFE HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$209,900Education$37,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Youth Development$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Arts & Culture$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $37,500 over 2y, 74% of budgetCAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Be Here Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Be Here Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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