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Capi USA

CAPI USA's mission is to guide refugees and immigrants in the journey toward self-determination and social equality.

$186k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$759kEducation$235kInternational$102kPublic Benefit$35kCommunity Improvement$29kEmployment$21kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Karen Organization of Minnesota$126,745
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota$17,413
Believe in What's Possible$15,000
One Family$12,000
Sewa-Aifw Asian Indian Family Wellness$12,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY INTEGRATION CENTER: $106k → 9%Community Integration Center: $27k → 9%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $53k → 14%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $48k → 14%Sewa-Aifw Asian Indian Family Wellness: $12k → 11%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $47k → 14%SEWA-AIFW: $10k → 11%Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota: $41k → 14%Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota: $17k → 14%Karen Organization of Minnesota: $127k → 14%Karen Organization of Minnesota: $82k → 14%BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $6k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $73k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $68k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $28k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+43%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentInternationalEmploymentOther

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

  • KO
    KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $377k · revenue +68%
  • TI
    TUTAPONA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $94k · revenue +5%
  • OF
    One Family
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEW MILLENNIUM ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +43%
  • IS
    INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 281
    one grant, 2022 · $44k
  • MC
    MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -13%

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.

1
Chinese Community Center
Community Improvement
2
Intercultural Mutual Assistance Association of Southeastern Minnesota

Intercultural mutual assistance association builds bridges between cultures by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

Human Services
3
Center for Community Services

Foster understanding and cultural exchange between american and chinese peoples and assist new immigrants in the greater minneapolis area to achieve economic self-sufficiency, social empowerment, and cultural appreciation.

Human Services
4
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
5
Korean Service Center

The Korean Service Center is dedicated to provide needed resources and services to vulnerable Koreans and other immigrant-Americans while striving to promote their rich cultural heritage for all international people.

Human Services
6
Asian Women United of Minnesota

Asian Women United of Minnesota (AWUM)'s mission is to end domestic violence by promoting safe and healthy relationships within the Asian-Pacific Islander community.

Human Services
7
Minnesota Multifaith Network

The Minnesota Multifaith Network is the statewide network supporting faith and interfaith leaders and organizations who work for a more just and loving world.

Religion
8
Center for Economic Inclusion

The Center for Economic Inclusion is an organization committed to strengthening the Minneapolis - Saint Paul region's civic infrastructure and collective capacity to disrupt systems and influence market forces to catalyze shared prosperity…

Community Improvement
9
International Institute of Minnesota

The international institute of minnesota helps new americans become self-sufficient and fully contributing members in our society. the institute provides quality programs and services that help new americans move lives forward. our…

Human Services
10
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
11
Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization

To support, and empower central minnesota refugee and immigrant communities through service and advocacy.

12
Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Center for Energy and Environment. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $377,235 · Human ServicesKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTAVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $206,112 · Human ServicesVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTACOMMUNITY INTEGRATION CENTER — $132,457 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INTEGRATION CENTER+2 more — $43,000 · Human Services+2 moreFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $66,861 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRI…INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 281 — $43,915 · OtherINDEPENDENT SCH…PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $28,600 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITE…BELIEVE IN WHAT'S POSSIBLE — $15,000 · OtherBELIEVE IN WHAT…CENTURY COLLEGE — $10,970 · OtherCENTURY COLLEGENEW MILLENNIUM ACADEMY — $70,000 · EducationNEW MILLENN…MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,995 · EducationMINNEAPOLIS…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…TUTAPONA INC — $94,300 · InternationalOne Family — $36,000 · Recreation & SportsHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $21,000 · EmploymentYoga Sanctuary — $19,320 · HealthCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — $10,000 · Environment
Human Services$758,804Other$165,346Education$120,995International$94,300Recreation & Sports$36,000Employment$21,000Health$19,320Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $377,235 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $206,112 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTUTAPONA INC — $94,300 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNEW MILLENNIUM ACADEMY — $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOne Family — $36,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,995 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $28,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA-BCOM- — $21,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · Propel Nonprofits · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Capi USA 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Capi USA?

    Find your warmest path to Capi USA 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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