· Public charity
Connexus Energy
CONNEXUS ENERGY serves our membership by providing cost competitive, reliable electricity and related services, with an environmental commitment, affirming the value of member cooperative ownership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CONNEXUS ENERGY FOUNDATION | $576,060 |
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 (FY17–19, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CECONNEXUS ENERGY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +46% · 100% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +87%
- H4HOPE 4 Youth3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- ACANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -8%
- AHANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +167%
- HFHOPE FOR THE COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +172%
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.
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
Our mission is to promote health equity, civic engagement and economic empowerment. We serve as a catalyst for change, dedicated to improving the quality of life in underrepresented communities.
The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.
Provide quality, accessible, and valuable health care services via a hospital, home health agency, and clinic to the surrounding rural community.
Fairview is driven to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota
Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The mission of the North Hennepin Community College Foundation is to create access to quality educational opportunities by energizing and mobilizing community, college, and alumni resources on behalf of North Hennepin Community College.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way and the most unlike its peers is Connexus Energy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 CONNEXUS ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
- Who funds ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mental Wellness Campaign for Anoka County Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds Passing The Bread ↗
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: Connexus Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ramsey Lions Club · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allina Health System · Pohlad Family Foundation · Deal Family Foundation · Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc · Walter C Rasmussen - Northeast Bank Foundation · The Graco 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 Connexus Energy 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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Find your warmest path to Connexus Energy 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.