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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$509k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
  • $250k+1 grant · $509k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$648k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION MINNESOTA$509,456
UNIDOS MN$100,000
ST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION - MOVE MINNESOTA$100,000
COPAL$60,000
FAITH IN MINNESOTA$60,000
CURE$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CURE: $60k → 10%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $800k → 11%100 ACTION SPONSOR TAKEACTION MN: $170k → 14%CONSERVATIVES FOR CLEAN ENERGY: $40k → 16%CURE: $40k → 10%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $600k → 11%FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $125k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $509k → 11%100 ACTION TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $125k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $475k → 11%100 ACTION: $100k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $177k → 11%ST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION - MOVE MINNESOTA: $100k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $175k → 11%FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $75k → 14%CLIMATE VOTE MINNESOTA: $149k → 11%100 ACTION TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $75k → 14%CLIMATE VOTE MINNESOTA: $130k → 11%FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $60k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $130k → 11%FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $40k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $36k → 11%MINNESOTA ENERGY FORUM ACTION: $61k → 14%CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $9k → 11%CLIMATE VOTE MINNESOTA: $8k → 11%CLIMATE VOTE MINNESOTA: $7k → 11%COPAL: $60k → 11%CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%COPAL: $40k → 11%MINNESOTA RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%UNIDOS MN: $100k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 6 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$4.2M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+142%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    CONSERVATION MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +20% · 28% of their budget
  • TM
    TAKEACTION MINNESOTA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $470k · revenue -56%
  • FI
    FAITH IN MINNESOTA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • ME
    MINNESOTA ENERGY FORUM ACTION
    one grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue 0%
  • CF
    Conservatives for a Clean Energy Futuregraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue ×15
  • MR
    MINNESOTA RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
MN350

Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.

Environment
2
Minnesota Conservative Energy Forum

Facilitate a clean energy dialogue among center-right leaders and activists. by depoliticizing the issue, we will then have created the capacity and credibility to educate and advocate for clean energy policy among conservatives and lead…

Environment
3
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
4
Minnesota Solar Energy Industries

Mnseia's mission is to grow solar and energy storage industries as part of minnesota's clean energy transition by delivering strong public policy, education, job creation and sustainable industry development.

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Exploration Association

To benefit our communities and advance a sustainable future through responsible mining, processing, and domestic supply chain utilization of our mineral resources.

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6
Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota

The citizens utility board (cub) of minnesota champions affordable, reliable, safe, and clean home energy for all minnesotans.

Civil Rights
7
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
8
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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9
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
10
Minnesota Action Network Inc

To create, encourage, and promote center right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong policies in the state of MN, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which…

Public Benefit
11
Community Power

Community power educates and activates the residents of minnesota cities to create clean, local, equitable, affordable & reliable energy systems.

Environment
12
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean Energy Economy Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Unidos Mn. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSERVATION MINNESOTA: $2,911,187 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION MINNESOTA+3 more: $205,000 · Environment+3 moreCLIMATE VOTE MINNESOTA: $294,120 · OtherCLIMATE VOTE…UNIDOS MN: $100,000 · OtherUNIDOS MNMINNESOTA ENERGY FORUM ACTION: $61,250 · OtherMINNESOTA EN…Conservatives for a Clean Energy Future: $40,322 · OtherConservative…MINNESOTA RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $470,250 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION …FAITH IN MINNESOTA: $300,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN M…COPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL COMM…
Environment$3,116,187Other$515,692Public Benefit$470,250Civil Rights$400,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FundSixteen Thirty FundTwin Cities Schools' …Climate Equity Action…All Hands on Deck Net…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    2report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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