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The purpose of this organization is to establish connections to communities and build generosity.

$74k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$35kHousing & Shelter$34kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$11k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $47,193, the rows itemized in this filing. The $74,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,840 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 $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAISE AWAY$10,695
CORRIERS HOUSE$10,498
RAPTORS END ZONE CLUB$10,000
MY VERY OWN BED$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$5,000
SHINE A LIGHT 7 FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORRIERS HOUSE: $10k → 6%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 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
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
2
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
3
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
4
Onward Eden Prairie

Help young adults in our community who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability by providing stable housing and support.

Housing & Shelter
5
Hope 4 Youth

To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.

Youth Development
6
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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7
Partners for Affordable Housing

Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…

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8
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
9
Build Wealth Mn Inc

Build Wealth MN's (BWMN) mission is to empower underserved communities and populations in the Twin Cities metro area to achieve social and economic wealth through community, economic, and housing development.

Education
10
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Mile in My Shoes

Mile in My Shoes connects runners from diverse backgrounds to build community, support health and wellness among those experiencing homelessness and spark social awareness. We run together to change perceptions and change lives.

Health
12
Foster Advocates

Foster Advocates is not just our name it's what we do. We foster advocacy, policy change, and organizing by partnering with Fosters and impacted communities. We envision a Minnesota where every person involved in Minnesota's foster care…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Raptors End Zone Club. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAPTORS END ZONE CLUB: $22,500 · EducationRAPTORS END ZONE CLUBUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA F…Bridging Inc: $11,600 · OtherBridging IncRAISE AWAY: $10,695 · OtherRAISE AWAYMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDA…SHINE A LIGHT COUNSELING CENTER: $5,000 · HealthSHINE A LIGHT COUN…WOODBURY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyWOODBURY COMM…SPARE KEY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementSPARE KEYMy Very Own Bed: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterMy Very Own…CORRIE'S HOUSE: $10,498 · Human ServicesCORRIE'S …
Education$27,500Other$22,295Health$20,000Philanthropy$15,000Community Improvement$15,000Housing & Shelter$12,000Human Services$10,498

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 budgetRAPTORS END ZONE CLUB: $22,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetWOODBURY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSPARE KEY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMy Very Own Bed: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBridging Inc: $11,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORRIE'S HOUSE: $10,498 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINE A LIGHT COUNSELING CENTER: $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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Custom One Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Custom One Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Custom One Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Custom One Charities 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 10 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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