How much did BIRMINGHAM-DORSEY CHAR TR grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of BIRMINGHAM-DORSEY CHAR TR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

saint

2019

saint

2020

saint

2021

saint

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $34k
$10k–50k7 grants · $83k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$20,000
MICROGRANTS$12,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES-DOROTHY DAY CNTR$10,000
SOLID GROUND$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL$10,000
THE FOOD GROUP$10,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE HOME$7,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$6,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$5,000
URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$3,000
ARC OF GREATER TWIN CITIES$3,000
MY VERY OWN BED$3,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MPLSST PAUL$3,000
FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$926k · 21 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$926k

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%

+124%

Still filing today

48%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

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SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
3× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +102%
SG
SOLID GROUND
6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +369%
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MICROGRANTS
6× · 2019–2024 · $41k · revenue +5%

Funded once

CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
one grant, 2017 · $30k
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SECOND HARVEST HEARTLANDST PAUL
one grant, 2022 · $20k
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UNION GOSPEL MISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +74%

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.

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and

Open your heart believes that every minnesotan should be free from hunger and homelessness. we make an impact by partnering with those who serve people in need, growing donor engagement and increasing awareness.

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Hubbard County Food Shelf

Receive and dispense food to needy clients

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Meals From the Heart

Meals from the Heart is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to serve their neighbors through easy to execute, energized and fun meal packing events building relationships and strengthening communities while providing…

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Hunger Solutions Minnesota

See schedule o.hunger solutions minnesota is a comprehensive hunger relief organization that works to end hunger in minnesota. we take action to assure food security for all minnesotans by supporting programs and agencies that provide food…

Food & Nutrition

Partners for Affordable Housing

Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.

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Second Harvest Inland Northwest

Providing food to needy families in the community.

Food & Nutrition

Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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Hilltop Regional Kitchen

Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.

Food & Nutrition

Food Group Minnesota Inc the

Fighting hunger. nourishing our community.

Food & Nutrition

Hospitality House

The mission of hospitality house is to minimize deprivation in our community by providing food assistance to those in need.

Human Services

Foundation for Essential Needs

To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.

Human Services

Mercy House Minneapolis

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Gospel Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Central Kitchen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$722,500Human Services$154,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Philanthropy$40,500International$26,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Youth Development$2,500

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

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 organisation BIRMINGHAM-DORSEY CHAR TR 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MICROGRANTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 204092394 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MICROGRANTS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr?

Find your warmest path to Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BIRMINGHAM-DORSEY CHAR TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr?

More from the funding graph

BIRMINGHAM-DORSEY CHAR TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr?

More from the funding graph