How much did EDUCATION MINNESOTA grant in FY2024?

EDUCATION MINNESOTA reported 75 grants totaling $3,033,061 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is EDUCATION MINNESOTA based?

EDUCATION MINNESOTA is based in MN.

EDUCATION MINNESOTA

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EDUCATION MINNESOTA

EDUCATION MINNESOTA is a labor union representing approximately 87,000 members who work in public schools, higher education and other related fields throughout the state.

$3.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$839k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of EDUCATION MINNESOTA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

ceceducational systemsstatesevery studentcommitteeduesmembership

2020

northlandhopkinsriverfallsmembershipassistantslearners district

2021

commonhopkinsissueswhite bearbear lakedues collectedosseo

2022

minnesota-intermediaterapids bigforkworking minnesotansduluthgrand rapidsereaelk river

2023

relational organizinosseobuffalouniserv

2024

relational organizinmediapriorplsearapids bigforkboardgrand rapids

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $171k
$10k–50k45 grants · $798k
$50k–250k5 grants · $416k
$250k+2 grants · $1.5M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$81M

Total assets

Largest grants

MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS$838,842
ST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS$631,962
ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS$138,069
BETTER TOGETHER MINNESOTA$120,000
EDUCATION MINNESOTA WORTHINGTON$56,781
METRO AREA COUNCIL$51,594
NORTH STAR POLICY ACTION$50,000
MANKATO TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$44,909
EDUCATION MINNESOTA MOORHEAD$42,038
PRIOR LAKE SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIA$40,121
EDEN PRAIRIE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$37,414
SCHOOL BOARD INTEGRITY PROJECT$35,000
MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY$32,323
MARSHALL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$31,399
UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON$28,711

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 116 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116

Total granted

$16M

$746k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%

-2%

Still filing today

46%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EmploymentEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SP
ST PAUL FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
6× · 2019–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +15%
RF
ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
6× · 2019–2024 · $870k · revenue +3%
UT
UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON
6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +15%

Funded once

AC
AFSCME COUNCIL 5
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -2%
CF
CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
one grant, 2019 · $77k · revenue -70%
LM
LEADERSHIP MATTERS MN
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -78% · 40% of their budget

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.

Education Minnesota

Education minnesota is a labor union representing approximately 87,000 members who work in public schools, higher education and other related fields throughout the state.

Employment

East Williston Teachers Association

Education

Arlington Education Association Arlington School District No 16

The Arlington Education Association represents the teachers of the Arlington School District.

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Muskegon City Teachers Education

To do collective bargaining / represent association members

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American Federation of Teachers

The organization is a democratic structure that improves the professional, econimic and personal lives of the members and their families, while strengthens the organizations workplace and furthers the cause of social justice through the…

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Connecticut Education Association

Teacher union at a local level to assist in contract negotiations for salaries benefits and working conditions.

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Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers

We are a PTA organization raising funds for Oakwood Elementary School Our funds raised goes to support school initiatives teacher grants field trips and other activities for the Oakwood community

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American Federation of Teachers

Teachers association

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Lane Community College Education Association

Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…

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Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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California Teachers Association-Smuhsdta

Labor union

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Helena Education Asssociation

Teacher labor union

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and the most unlike its peers is Uptake Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/191

the rest of the field

3,300/38,798

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/69

Grantees still filing

37/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$14,347,119Employment$1,559,956Education$647,668Philanthropy$149,401Public Benefit$78,000Human Services$46,167Community Improvement$26,000

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.

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.

Education Minnesota Foundation ForMN37.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 2 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Education Minnesota Foundation For · National Education Association of The · Minnesota Nurses Association · Service Employees International · Laborers International Union of North · Seiu Minnesota State Council · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 EDUCATION MINNESOTA 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

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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: SOUTH SUBURBAN UNITED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821168217 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 SOUTH SUBURBAN UNITED, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Education Minnesota?

Find your warmest path to Education Minnesota 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.

EDUCATION MINNESOTA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Minnesota?

More from the funding graph

EDUCATION MINNESOTA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Minnesota?

More from the funding graph