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CROW WING POWER COMMUNITY TRUST
Accumulate and disburse funds for educational and charitable purposes.
$229k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$100kHuman Services$58kCommunity Improvement$32kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$12kHousing & Shelter$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$107k
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
2018
waylivesmembersit's livinglovechrist
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
expansion
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
- BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE$15,000
- CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES$6,000
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$215k · 7 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
13
Total granted
$215k
$124k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+88%
+7%
Still filing today
86%
69%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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
- POPBRIDGES OF HOPE4× · 2019–2023 · $73k · revenue +133%
- LALAKES AREA FOOD SHELF2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +368%
- CMCENTRAL MN ADULT AND TEEN CHANLLENGE2× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- LALAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +27%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -31%
- CVCAMP VANASEKone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
1
Lakes and Prairies Community
To eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities.
Human Services
2
Lakeshore Legal Aid
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Crime & Legal
3
Lake Superior Community Health Center
As a community health center, we are dedicated to providing care to everyone in need, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.we seek to improve access to quality health care for all by providing access to quality medical, dental, and…
Health
4
Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc
Distribute food to those in need
Human Services
5
The Lakes Community Health Center Inc
To respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness.
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6
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership
Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Human Services
7
Lake Area United Way Inc
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
Philanthropy
8
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud is a nonprofit human services organization that in 2024 served 47,220 individuals of all faiths and beliefs across Central Minnesota.
Human Services
9
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries
To provide healthcare for the elderly.
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10
Inter-Lakes Community Action
Our mission: empowering people to embrace their strengths and opportunities.our vision: sustainable communities where children, families, and individuals reach their full potential. our values: compassion, dedication, innovation,…
Human Services
11
St Lukes Lutheran Care Center
To provide elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services.
Human Services
12
West Central Minnesota Communities
Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Good Neighbors Ems Fund. 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
16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$107,000Health$99,500Human Services$58,200Community Improvement$32,000Philanthropy$24,500International$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$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.
- Who funds PBRIDGES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MN ADULT AND TEEN CHANLLENGE ↗
- Who funds BRAINERD COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS EMS FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES CAREER ACADEMICS ↗
- Who funds SHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH ↗
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.
Essentia Health FoundationMN20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Essentia Health Foundation · Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · Initiative Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation CROW WING POWER COMMUNITY TRUST 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 · 0–10%
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: LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 550903543 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 LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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 Crow Wing Power Community Trust?
Find your warmest path to Crow Wing Power Community Trust 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
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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