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Citizens Independant Bank Community Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Education$7kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$5kArts & Culture$5kReligion$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,389
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEP - ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM$1,389
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) 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.

area typical 7%PRISM: $2k → 11%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 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
Minneapolis Parks Foundation

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.

Recreation & Sports
2
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
3
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

4
Lexington Hamline Community Council

Civic involvement

Community Improvement
5
Lake Street Council

Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…

Community Improvement
6
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
7
Social Venture Partners Minnesota

SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a…

Philanthropy
8
St Paul Central High School Foundation

Provide scholarships to graduating seniors of St. Paul Central, Minnesota's oldest public high school.

9
Minnesota Brass Inc

Minnesota Brass shares a unique passion for the live performing arts by producing ensembles and events that challenge our members to reach their full potential while inspiring our audiences.

Education
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
Friends of Thomas Lowry Park Minnesota Non-Profit Corporation

Friends of thomas lowry park provides support to the minneapolis park and recreation board for the tender care of thomas lowry park. ftlp provides funds for biannual plantings, volunteer gardening help, and other park needs.

Environment
12
Minnesota Community Foundation

Purpose: we inspire generosity, advocate for equity and invest in community-led solutions. aspiration: we envision an equitable, just and vibrant minnesota where all communities and people thrive. values: we listen. we innovate and learn.…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Park Emergency Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seven Dreams Education 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TWINWEST CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTWINWEST CHAMBER FOUNDATIONSTEP - EMPTY BOWLS — $5,000 · OtherSTEP - EMPTY BOWLSTORAH ACADEMY OF MINNEAPOLIS — $3,600 · OtherTORAH ACADEMY OF MINNEAPOLISBESTPREP — $3,500 · OtherBESTPREPST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC — $2,389 · OtherST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INCST LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,000 · OtherDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS — $1,000 · Other+2 more — $1,100 · OtherChildren First — $5,000 · EducationChildren FirstSEVEN DREAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationSEVEN DREAMS EDUCATI…PLYMOUTH CIVIC LEAGUE INC — $2,500 · Arts & CulturePLYMOUTH CIVIC…FRIENDS OF THE HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE AR — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE…PARKTACULAR INCORPORATED — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePARKTACULAR IN…PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $1,500 · Human ServicesLENOX FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$22,589Education$6,500Arts & Culture$4,500Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTWINWEST CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBESTPREP — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH CIVIC LEAGUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC — $2,389 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN DREAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE AR — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARKTACULAR INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 16% 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 FoundationMN16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Citizens Independant Bank Community 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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, 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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Citizens Independant Bank Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Citizens Independant Bank Community Foundation 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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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