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Department of Public Transformation

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION is a nonprofit organization that develops creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places.

$74k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$67k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$66,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$66,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Department of Public Transformation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving1$67k100%
FY20222$31k50%
FY20212$124k100%
FY20202$141kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$141kPhilanthropy$109kArts & Culture$73kEnvironment$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Unrestricted Interest$134,4422n/a
Manoomin Arts Initiative$66,5001n/a
Voice for Rural Resilience$15,0001n/a
The Whit Gallery$6,2081n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.

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About Department of Public Transformation

How much does Department of Public Transformation give?
Department of Public Transformation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $66,500, out of $74,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Department of Public Transformation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (39%), Philanthropy (30%), Arts & Culture (20%).
Who are Department of Public Transformation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Unrestricted Interest ($134k), Manoomin Arts Initiative ($67k), Voice for Rural Resilience ($15k).
Does Department of Public Transformation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Department of Public Transformation based?
Department of Public Transformation 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 6 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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