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COMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC
COMMUNITY MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVICes, inc is committed to developing the capacity of our community to respectfully resolve conflict and repair harm.
$30k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
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Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Community Improvement$109kHuman Services$78kInternational$67kSocial Science$51kEducation$38kCrime & Legal$8kOther$219k
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
2020
covid housinghousing relief
2021
covid housinghousing relief
2022
outreach navigation
2023
culturally specificspecific housing
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$14,920
Median grant
1
States reached
$884k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SAKAN$14,920
- 1 DAY AT A TIME$5,060
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 (FY20–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$388k · 9 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +345% since the first grant, against +256% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
7
Total granted
$388k
$177k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+345%
+256%
Still filing today
67%
71%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalSocial ScienceCrime & LegalOther
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
- SSAKAN4× · 2020–2023 · $81k · revenue +9%
- CCAPI3× · 2020–2022 · $67k · revenue +345%
- NRNORTHSIDE RESIDENTS OF REDEVELOPMENT CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +356%
Funded once
- ADABSTRAKT DEVELOPMENT LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- ADABSTRAKT DEVELOPMENT LLCone grant, 2021 · $41k
- POPOWER OF LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +256%
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.
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Minnesota Voice
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Public Benefit
2
Minneapolis American Indian Center
The Organization's mission is to provide excellent services witin a foundation of cultural values that help meet the needs of the American Indian community. The Organization offers services to the American Indian community in Minneapolis,…
Human Services
3
Open Path Resources
Open Path Resources seeks to bring about positive change for the State of Minnesota through organizing practicies with the East African Community. Building understanding upon key public issues affecting current and future success of East…
Religion
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
Minnesota African Women Coalition
Our mission is to cultivate, foster and implement sustainable and long-lasting change through Economic Development, Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Job Training & Career Development, Mental Health initiatives, Memory Loss and…
Health
6
Minnesota African Womens Association
To promote the health and well being of African refugees and immigrant women and their families in the twin cities area through research, education, advoccacy, and programming.
Human Services
7
African Development Center
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Human Services
8
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
9
Mediation Services for Anoka County
Mediation and Restorative services provide affordable mediation and restorative practice to help peaople resoolve their conflicts and repair harm
Crime & Legal
10
Partners for Affordable Housing
Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.
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African Community Services
To assist new americans arriving from africa become productive and well-adjusted citizens.
Education
12
Lights On
Promote civic engagement by the African American community in Minneapolis, MN and surrounding communities. The goal of Lights On is to create a sense of agency within the community by educating members about the institutions that affect…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Career Education & Resources in and the most unlike its peers is Hmong American Mediation Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$219,321Community Improvement$108,919Human Services$78,060International$66,500Social Science$51,000Education$38,000Crime & Legal$8,000
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.
- Who funds SAKAN ↗
- Who funds CAPI ↗
- Who funds PHUMALANI ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION OF LIBERIANS IN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE RESIDENTS OF REDEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ALIVENESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE ANIKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWER OF LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAO CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION AND RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN MEDIATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds 1 DAY AT A TIME ↗
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 FoundationMN28.1× affinity12 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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Alliance for Metropolitan Stability · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The McKnight Foundation · Minnesota Voice · Target Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · American Online Giving Foundation 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 MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE SERVIC 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: SAKAN.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 813594639 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 SAKAN, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
- 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Mediation & Restorative Servic?
Find your warmest path to Community Mediation & Restorative Servic 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.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines