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Blaze Credit Union

BLAZE CREDIT UNION's purpose is to create better lives for our members.

$621k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$307kHealth$285kAnimals$200kEducation$140kPhilanthropy$136kRecreation & Sports$104kFood & Nutrition$86kArts & Culture$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $601,457, the rows itemized in this filing. The $621,457 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $331k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY NORTHERN DIVISION$101,250
THE FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL LIBRARY$75,000
ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$45,000
REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$40,428
THE BOND BETWEEN$35,000
COMO FRIENDS$34,250
SPARE KEY$21,500
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD$20,000
BESTPREP$17,500
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$15,000
SMALL SUMS$11,000
HUNGER RELATED EVENTS$11,000
WASECA AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER$10,050
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHLAND$10,000
ST PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLSISD #625$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DARTS: $6k → 6%CRESCENT COVE: $9k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $11k → 11%HUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $6k → 11%WILDER FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$926k · 18 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
22

Total granted

$926k
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +61%
  • TB
    THE BOND BETWEEN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $101k · revenue +60%
  • CF
    COMO FRIENDS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $98k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • JA
    JULIE AND KIRK COUSINS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue ×20
  • N
    NETGIVER
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • UH
    UNITED HEROES LEAGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -3%
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
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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2
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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3
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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7
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
10
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
11
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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12
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Julie and Kirk Cousins Foundation. 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 59 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
30/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $273,602 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $101,900 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARYBFW INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $56,750 · OtherBFW INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCHBESTPREP: $31,165 · OtherBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD: $30,000 · Other+31 more: $345,086 · Other+31 moreTHE BOND BETWEEN: $101,350 · AnimalsTHE BOND BETWE…COMO FRIENDS: $98,200 · AnimalsCOMO FRIENDSREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $127,879 · HealthREGIONS HOSPI…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,583 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…ANGEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDAT…RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · HealthRANDY SHAVER …Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $9,113 · HealthVAIL PLACE: $7,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $63,500 · PhilanthropyBLAZE CREDI…JULIE AND KIRK COUSINS FOUNDATION: $51,000 · PhilanthropyJULIE AND K…WOODBURY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 · PhilanthropyWOODBURY CO…CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S …SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,506 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationTHE WINFIELD AWARDS: $6,666 · EducationHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $6,500 · EducationMAROON AND GOLD RISING: $5,000 · EducationHUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $17,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE: $9,000 · Human ServicesDARTS: $6,000 · Human ServicesORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $45,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$838,503Animals$199,550Health$182,575Philanthropy$150,506Education$46,166Human Services$45,500Arts & Culture$45,000

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 budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $127,879 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $101,900 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $101,350 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMO FRIENDS: $98,200 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $63,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetBFW INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $56,750 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetJULIE AND KIRK COUSINS FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBESTPREP: $31,165 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARE KEY: $21,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $21,470 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER RELATED EVENTS: $17,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PARTNERS: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $15,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBURY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCUS OF THE STAR: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,583 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $12,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAT HOME GROUP: $11,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPageant of Hope Incorporated: $10,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetArea Neighborhood Service Center Inc: $10,050 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJIMS TEAM 4 DIABETES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLewis Sports Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation: $9,113 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA TWINS COMMUNITY FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVAIL PLACE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINFIELD AWARDS: $6,666 over 1y, 28% of budgetHIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB: $6,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $6,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDARTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHANDSON TWIN CITIES: $5,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,506 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGuild: $5,167 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Margaret a Cargill Fo…The Hubbard Broadcast…Nicholson Family Foun…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Graco Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN46.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Graco Foundation

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 Blaze Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blaze Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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