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Crow Wing Power Community Trust

Accumulate and disburse funds for educational and charitable purposes

$229k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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 2024.

Health$120kFood & Nutrition$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kHousing & Shelter$26kCrime & Legal$24kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$13kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $21,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $228,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $207,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE$15,000
CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES$6,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF: $17k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 15%LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF: $6k → 14%BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE: $15k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $12k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 7 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

+36%
+10%

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.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BO
    BRIDGES OF HOPE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $73k · revenue +116%
  • LA
    LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +36%
  • MT
    Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • DI
    DOOLEY INVESTMENTS LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • LA
    LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +133%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +10%
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
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
2
Lake Area United Way Inc

Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.

Philanthropy
3
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. the lakes community health center, inc. is proud to be a community health center (chc) working to…

—
4
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
5
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
6
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
7
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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8
Arrowhead Library System

Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…

Education
9
Lake Country Caring Inc

To provide basic necessities at no cost to those in need.

Human Services
10
Lakeside Curative Services Inc

Provide training and community engagement for youth and individuals with varying abilities to enhance their self-esteem and quality of life.

Health
11
St Lukes Lutheran Care Center

St. luke's lutheran care center provides elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services and is specially designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of the residents and to contribute to their…

Human Services
12
Lakes Area Community Coalition

Building a healthy, vibrant, drug-free community in the lakes area by reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors around youth to prevent underage substance use and addiction.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $53,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYDOOLEY INVESTMENTS LLC: $12,000 · OtherDOOLEY INVESTMENTS LLCCAMP VANASEK: $12,000 · OtherCAMP VANASEKCROW WING FOOD COOP: $10,000 · OtherCROW WING FOOD COOPBRAINERD LAKES CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherBRAINERD LAKES CHAMBER FOUNDATIONSHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN: $6,000 · OtherSHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHENBRAINERD LAKES ROWING CLUB: $6,000 · OtherBRAINERD LAKES ROWING CLUBBRIDGES OF HOPE: $73,000 · HealthBRIDGES OF HOPEMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $21,500 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge IncESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthLAKES AREA FOOD SHELF: $23,000 · Human ServicesLAKES AREA FOOD SH…BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE: $15,000 · Human ServicesBREATH OF LIFE ADU…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $11,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,700 · Human ServicesAmerican National …COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF CROW WING COUNTY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCROW WING …LAKES AREA UNITED WAY: $12,500 · PhilanthropyLAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT: $12,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $12,000 · InternationalLAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterGOOD NEIGHBORS EMS FUND: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$107,000Health$99,500Human Services$58,200Community Improvement$32,000Philanthropy$24,500International$12,000Housing & Shelter$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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

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
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.

Essentia Health Found…CommunitygivingInitiative FoundationOtto Bremer TrustE W Hallett Charitabl…Minnesota Power Found…The Minneapolis Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crow Wing Power Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crow Wing Power Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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