How much did COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA’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

2019

louis park

2020

sports

2021

feeschildhood cancer

2022

missionsrespecthonorrequestedfallen heroesfinancial

2023

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2024

safetymealsatvingeducateatvinformationinterest

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

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $53k
$10k–50k10 grants · $241k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

MINNESOTA AMERICAN LEGION FDN$49,179
PARK TAVERN$39,013
BOWLING PROPRIETORS ASSN OF MN$31,260
ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM$29,000
ST LOUIS PARK HIGH SCHOOL$24,000
SMART BOWLING SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING$19,000
WILDERNESS WHEELERS$18,000
ST LOUIS PARK CRIME PREVENTION$12,000
RIVER VALLEY FOUNDATION$10,000
THE AMERICAN LEGION LEGIONVILLE$10,000
MARCELL SNOW DRIFTERS$9,000
ST LOUIS PARK FRIENDS OF THE ARTS$8,500
PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION$8,000
SALUTING BRANCHES$7,570
MAYO CLINIC$7,500

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 (FY18–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTAlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+41%

Still filing today

54%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

SB
Smart Bowling Scholarship Funding Corp
7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +49%
SL
St Louis Park Emergency Program
6× · 2019–2024 · $113k · revenue +69%
PN
Park Nicollet Foundation
6× · 2019–2024 · $99k · revenue +26%

Funded once

MP
Minnesota Patriot Guard
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -80% · 68% of their budget
AL
American Legion Endowment Fund Corpgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +547%
CU
Choice Unlimited
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +21%

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.

Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and

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Minnesota Deer Hunters Association

The primary purpose of the organization is to achieve the best possible deer herd, to promote high quality hunting and to protect our hunting heritage. to achieve these purposes, the following activities whall be promoted: 1. present our…

Recreation & Sports

Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society

Promote and preserve the history and culture of lake life through interpretive exhibits, educational programs, collections management and special events.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Golf Charity Events

To raise critical funds for organizations supporting minnesotans living with developmental and learning disabilities.

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Minnesota State Elks Association Charitable Trust

Community Improvement

Minnesota Hunter & Jumper Association

The minnesota hunter & jumper association's purpose is to support the hunter/jumper sport in the state of minnesota. our goals are to foster a community of hunter/jumper enthusiasts, strengthen local competition at all levels, represent…

Recreation & Sports

Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of

The minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…

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Minnesota State Fire Chiefs

To create a stronger, more effective minnesota fire service by engaging current and future leaders with the best training, education and professional development opportunities available.

Public Safety & Disaster

Minnesota Stroke Association

The Mission of the Minnesota Stroke Association is to raise awareness about stroke and to enhance the quality of life for all people coping with its sudden and long term effects.

Health

The American Legion Department of

The american legion, department of minnesota was organized to support american legion members and their programs in minnesota.

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Minnesota Fishing Museum &

The organization was created for the purpose of developing an attraction and a museum to collect, preserve, and display the artifacts of the sport of fresh water angling; and to perform a program of recognition of persons and organizations…

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association

Organizations mission or most significant activities provide memorials for police officers slain in the lin of duty, provide assistance for their families, provide training for police honor guard units, assist department with funeral…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota American Legion Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/39

the rest of the field

11%

2,105/18,417

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.

06the grantee network

28 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)

24/28

Grantees still filing

17/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,025,780Public Benefit$301,979Health$34,500Arts & Culture$30,500Recreation & Sports$23,000Education$17,000Employment$10,000

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Minnesota Patriot Guard.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205495808 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 Minnesota Patriot Guard, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

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How do I get to Community Charities of Minnesota?

Find your warmest path to Community Charities of Minnesota 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.

COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Charities of Minnesota?

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COMMUNITY CHARITIES OF MINNESOTA

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Charities of Minnesota?

More from the funding graph