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Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc

Conservation minnesota voter center researches public opinion and government actions on conservation issues, providing reliable information to help minnesotans make decisions that protect the health of our air, water, communities and families.

$889k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$509,456
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$648k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Civil RightsEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$889k33%
FY20244$595k50%
FY20233$1.0M0%
FY20224$858k0%
FY20217$567k57%
FY20204$253k75%
FY20191$177k0%
FY20181$9k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$3.8MCivil Rights$500kPublic Benefit$225k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Minnesota$2,911,187928%
Takeaction Minnesota$470,25044%
Faith in Minnesota$300,00047%
Climate Vote Minnesota$294,1204n/a
Unidos Mn$100,0001n/a
Copal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A$100,000281%
St Paul Transportation Management Organization$100,0001n/a
Clean Up the River Environment$100,00023%
Minnesota Energy Forum Action$61,2501n/a
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future$40,322112%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Conservation Minnesota$2,911,187928%
Takeaction Minnesota$470,25044%
Faith in Minnesota$300,00047%
Climate Vote Minnesota$294,1204n/a
Unidos Mn$100,0001n/a
Copal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A$100,000281%
St Paul Transportation Management Organization$100,0001n/a
Clean Up the River Environment$100,00023%
Minnesota Energy Forum Action$61,2501n/a
Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future$40,322112%
Minnesota Rural Electric Association$20,00010%
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConservation Minnesota: $2,911,187 over 9y, 28% of budgetTakeaction Minnesota: $470,250 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetFaith in Minnesota: $300,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCopal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A: $100,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetClean Up the River Environment: $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetConservatives for a Clean Energy Future: $40,322 over 1y, 12% of budgetMinnesota Rural Electric Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetClean Energy Economy Minnesota: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Energy Action FundCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Energy Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group · Climate Equity Action Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc?

Find your warmest path to Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc 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.

About Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc

How much does Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc give?
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc reported 6 grants totaling $889,456 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (84%), Civil Rights (11%), Public Benefit (5%).
Who are Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Conservation Minnesota ($2.9M), Takeaction Minnesota ($470k), Faith in Minnesota ($300k).
Does Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Energy Action Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group.
Where is Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc based?
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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