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Crow Wing Power Community Trust

Accumulate and disburse funds for educational and charitable purposes

$229k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$21k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$152k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Crow Wing Power Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$21k50%
FY20233$37k33%
FY20224$35k100%
FY20213$33k33%
FY20207$77k57%
FY20193$55k67%
FY20184$36k50%
FY20176$61kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$120kFood & Nutrition$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHousing & Shelter$26kCrime & Legal$24kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$13kYouth Development$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bridges of Hope$73,00043%
Salvation Army$53,0004n/a
Lakes Area Food Shelf$23,00022%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$21,50020%
Community Action Council of Crow Wing County$20,00025%
Breath of Life Adult Day Service$15,00014%
Lakes Area United Way$12,50022%
Dooley Investments LLC$12,0001n/a
Lakes Area Restorative Justice Project$12,00016%
Junior Achievement North$12,00010%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Crow Wing Power Community Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bridges of Hope$73,00043%
Salvation Army$53,0004n/a
Lakes Area Food Shelf$23,00022%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$21,50020%
Community Action Council of Crow Wing County$20,00025%
Breath of Life Adult Day Service$15,00014%
Lakes Area United Way$12,50022%
Dooley Investments LLC$12,0001n/a
Lakes Area Restorative Justice Project$12,00016%
Junior Achievement North$12,00010%
Crow Wing County Victim Services$12,00023%
Camp Vanasek$12,0001n/a
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$11,50010%
Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity$10,50011%
Crow Wing Food Coop$10,0001n/a
Good Neighbors EMS Fund$10,00014%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$8,70010%
Brainerd Lakes Chamber Foundation$8,00013%
Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen$6,00013%
Brainerd Lakes Rowing Club$6,0001n/a
Essentia Health Foundation$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Crow Wing Power Community Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBridges of Hope: $73,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLakes Area Food Shelf: $23,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Council of Crow Wing County: $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBreath of Life Adult Day Service: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLakes Area United Way: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLakes Area Restorative Justice Project: $12,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetJunior Achievement North: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrow Wing County Victim Services: $12,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Area Habitat for Humanity: $10,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGood Neighbors EMS Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrainerd Lakes Chamber Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSharing Bread Soup Kitchen: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEssentia Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 16.

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.

Essentia Health FoundationMN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essentia Health Foundation · Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · E W Hallett Charitable Tr Ua · Minnesota Power Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Crow Wing Power Community Trust?

Find your warmest path to Crow Wing Power Community Trust 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 Crow Wing Power Community Trust

How much does Crow Wing Power Community Trust give?
Crow Wing Power Community Trust reported 2 itemized grants totaling $21,000, out of $228,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Crow Wing Power Community Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
Who are Crow Wing Power Community Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bridges of Hope ($73k), Salvation Army ($53k), Lakes Area Food Shelf ($23k).
Does Crow Wing Power Community Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crow Wing Power Community Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essentia Health Foundation, Communitygiving, Initiative Foundation.
Where is Crow Wing Power Community Trust based?
Crow Wing Power Community Trust 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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