· Public charity
Education Minnesota
EDUCATION MINNESOTA is a labor union representing approximately 86,000 members who work in public schools, higher education and other related fields throughout the state.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $258k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $362k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS | $827,918 |
| MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS | $714,699 |
| ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS | $262,068 |
| ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MN | $141,434 |
| ST CROIX RIVER EDUCATION | $64,198 |
| ROCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $54,598 |
| CHASKA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $51,716 |
| TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION MINNESOTA GRAND RAPIDS | $48,157 |
| MINNEWASKA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $47,122 |
| EDUCATION MINNESOTA BUFFALO | $44,941 |
| ELK RIVER EDUCATION MINNESOTA | $40,558 |
| EDUCATION MINNESOTA OSSEO | $40,481 |
| METRO AREA COUNCIL | $36,500 |
| SHAKOPEE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $34,320 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
141 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 288× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +4%
- RFROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
- AHANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA6× · 2019–2025 · $283k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MCMN Council Number 5 of AFSCMEone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +1%
- CFCATALYST FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGEone grant, 2019 · $77k · revenue -61%
- LMLEADERSHIP MATTERS MNone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -39% · 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.
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 is a labor union representing approximately 86,000 members who work in public schools, higher education and other related fields throughout the state.
Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.
To do collective bargaining / represent association members
The Arlington Education Association represents the teachers of the Arlington School District.
The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.
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…
Bargaining collectively and processing grievances on behalf of the members in addition to sponsoring meetings and particpating in teaching conventions there are over 340 members
Serve as a collective bargaining unit for the fall river, massachusetts teachers.
Teachers association
Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.
Teachers collective bargaining
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Minnesota - Osseo and the most unlike its peers is North Star Policy Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 211 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 28 ↗
- Who funds ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds Better Together MN ↗
- Who funds Educators Leading The Profession ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Minnetonka Teachers Association ↗
- Who funds WORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHASKA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 692 - DULUTH ↗
- Who funds FOREST LAKE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION % DAVE SAUER ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds Education Minnesota Cambridge Isanti ↗
- Who funds Education Minnesota Osseo ESP ↗
- Who funds EDEN PRAIRIE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME ↗
- Who funds Shakopee Education Association ↗
- Who funds American Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 287 Local 2209 ↗
- Who funds Working Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds MANKATO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN UNITED IO ↗
- Who funds GREAT SOUTHWEST UNITED ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION MOORHEAD ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning · National Education Association of the United States · Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organization 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.
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 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.