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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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$828k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$11MEmployment$5.7MMembership Benefit$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$446kCrime & Legal$199kPublic Benefit$146kPhilanthropy$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $258k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $362k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$11,890
Median grant
1
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $27k → 11%BURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $26k → 11%BURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%BURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 141 repeat orgs$901k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141
55

Total granted

$20M
$753k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+1%

Still filing today

43%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EmploymentEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SP
    ST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 28
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +4%
  • RF
    ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
  • AH
    ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $283k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MC
    MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CATALYST FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
    one grant, 2019 · $77k · revenue -61%
  • LM
    LEADERSHIP MATTERS MN
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -39% · 40% of their budget
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.

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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.

Employment
2
Florida Education Association Putnam Federation of Teachers/United

Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.

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3
East Williston Teachers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
4
Muskegon City Teachers Education Association

To do collective bargaining / represent association members

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5
Arlington Education Association Arlington School District No 16

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

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6
Connecticut Education Association

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.

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7
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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8
American Federation of Teachers 2623 Esm

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

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9
Fall River Educators' Association Inc

Serve as a collective bargaining unit for the fall river, massachusetts teachers.

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10
American Federation of Teachers

Teachers association

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11
Connecticut Education Association

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

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12
American Federation of Teachers Oceansid

Teachers collective bargaining

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Minnesota - Osseo; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 211 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
41/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59: $5,197,753 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59ST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 28: $4,887,585 · OtherST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 28ROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $1,131,986 · OtherROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS+158 more: $6,712,447 · Other+158 moreANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA: $282,823 · EmploymentANOKA HENNE…CHASKA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $161,050 · EmploymentCHASKA EDUC…AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $134,414 · EmploymentAMERICAN FE…FOREST LAKE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION % DAVE SAUER: $128,808 · EmploymentFOREST LAKE…Education Minnesota Cambridge Isanti: $115,420 · EmploymentEducation M…EDEN PRAIRIE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $106,763 · EmploymentMN Council Number 5 of AFSCME: $100,000 · EmploymentWorking Partnerships Inc: $92,185 · EmploymentMANKATO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $91,945 · EmploymentGREAT SOUTHWEST UNITED: $90,956 · EmploymentELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $87,339 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $86,284 · EmploymentST CROIX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $83,047 · EmploymentALBERT LEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $76,575 · Employment+12 more: $481,451 · Employment+12 moreEducators Leading The Profession: $323,972 · EducationHOPKINS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $85,615 · EducationCATALYST FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: $76,850 · EducationPRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $54,859 · EducationLEADERSHIP MATTERS MN: $50,000 · EducationGreat Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice: $40,000 · EducationUPTAKE INSTITUTE: $38,000 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · EducationMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY: $143,127 · PhilanthropyHIAWATHA VALLEY TEACHERS UNITED: $16,274 · PhilanthropyTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $146,000 · Public BenefitBURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $72,127 · Human ServicesAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $26,000 · Community Improvement
Other$17,929,771Employment$2,119,060Education$684,296Philanthropy$159,401Public Benefit$146,000Human Services$72,127Community Improvement$26,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59: $5,197,753 over 9y, 21% of budgetST PAUL FEDERATION OF EDUCATORS LOCAL 28: $4,887,585 over 8y, 19% of budgetROBBINSDALE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $1,131,986 over 7y, 19% of budgetBetter Together MN: $378,200 over 4y, 65% of budgetEducators Leading The Profession: $323,972 over 4y, 18% of budgetANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA: $282,823 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY: $232,941 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetEDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO: $220,229 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNORTH STAR POLICY INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetMinnetonka Teachers Association: $175,542 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetWORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $173,060 over 5y, 44% of budgetCHASKA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $161,050 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $146,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY: $143,127 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $134,414 over 6y, 22% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $132,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $130,119 over 7y, 40% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 692 - DULUTH: $128,881 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFOREST LAKE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION % DAVE SAUER: $128,808 over 3y, 13% of budgetDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS: $125,112 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetEducation Minnesota Cambridge Isanti: $115,420 over 6y, 16% of budgetEducation Minnesota Osseo ESP: $109,321 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetEDEN PRAIRIE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $106,763 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetMN Council Number 5 of AFSCME: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShakopee Education Association: $98,770 over 4y, 35% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 287 Local 2209: $92,868 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetWorking Partnerships Inc: $92,185 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMANKATO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $91,945 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN UNITED IO: $91,359 over 7y, 72% of budgetGREAT SOUTHWEST UNITED: $90,956 over 9y, 14% of budgetEDUCATION MOORHEAD: $90,697 over 5y, 30% of budgetELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $87,339 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $86,284 over 5y, 19% of budgetHOPKINS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $85,615 over 4y, 22% of budgetST CROIX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $83,047 over 3y, 44% of budgetEDUCATION MINNESOTA GRAND RAPIDS BIGFORK LOCAL 1314: $81,804 over 3y, 52% of budgetCATALYST FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: $76,850 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALBERT LEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $76,575 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetBRAINERD UNITED EDUCATORS EDUCATION MINNESOTA BRD: $72,346 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetBURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $72,127 over 4y, 17% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATORS LOCAL 7286: $70,101 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWAYZATA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $63,931 over 4y, 23% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $63,598 over 2y, 20% of budgetMOUNDS VIEW EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $59,244 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCENTENNIAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $58,140 over 4y, 14% of budgetPRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $54,859 over 2y, 25% of budgetLEADERSHIP MATTERS MN: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNORTH STAR POLICY ACTION: $50,000 over 1y, 21% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Education Minnesota F…National Education As…Laborers Internationa…Mightycause Charitabl…Amazonsmile Foundation
Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & LearningMN36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 3 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Education Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 211 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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