· Public charity
Blaze Credit Union Foundation
Passionately providing resources to enhance the overall wellness of the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BLAZE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $154,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,180 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,400 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GILLETTE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $21,700 |
| SAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| BLAZE CREDIT UNION | $11,000 |
| PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SMALL SUMS DBA AT HOME GROUP INC | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC | $10,000 |
| THINK SMALL | $10,000 |
| WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC | $10,000 |
| MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC | $10,000 |
| TREE TRUST | $10,000 |
| CONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| BANZAI INC | $9,580 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) 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.
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BIBANZAI INC3× · 2022–2024 · $29k
- SPSAINT PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS2× · 2023–2024 · $28k
- KIKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $19k · revenue -62%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +29%
- MCMINNESOTA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -3%
- MCMINNESOTA CREDIT UNION NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Achieve Twin Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CREDIT UNION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAZE CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds OUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds CARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Hmong College Prep Academy ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Allina Health System · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Wem Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Target Foundation
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 Blaze Credit Union Foundation 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.
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.
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