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Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at a glance

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Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning

Provide financial support for innovative programs initiated by education minnesota members and affiliates that promote educational access for learners & excellence in teaching.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$329kEmployment$75kHealth$15kMembership Benefit$15kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$13k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $267,832 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $237,832 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON$15,000
WEST ST PAUL FEDERATION OF TEACHERS$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 6%BURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $13k → 6%PATHWAYS: $15k → 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 6 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$209k
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+2%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AH
    ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA
    3× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • UT
    UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY
    2× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • PS
    PRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +284% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • CS
    CODE SAVVYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
  • EM
    EDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • BF
    BLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -14%
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.

1
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
Mounds View Education Association

Teachers' labor representation and professional organization for minnesota isd 621.

Employment
3
Park Association of Teachers

Labor Union

Employment
4
East Williston Teachers Association Scholarship Foundation
Education
5
North St Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale Education Association

North st paul-maplewood-oakdale education association is a labor organization that represents the teachers in independent school district 622, serving north st paul, maplewood and oakdale minnesota. they provide a united voice for public…

Employment
6
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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7
Education Minnesota Cambridge Isanti

We are a labor union that represents public school teachers in the Cambridge-Isanti school district.

Employment
8
Albert Lea Education Association

Negotiates teacher contracts with albert lea, mn school district. advocates teachers rights,provides a forum for teachers to discuss job related issues and awards scholarships.

Employment
9
Owatonna Education Association

We are a local teachers union serving the Owatonna Public School District. We support educators so they can support success for all students.

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10
Hopkins Education Association

Hopkins Educational Association is a local educator union for members at Hopkins Public Schools. Our purpose is to support and represent approx 575 members (as of 7/31/2025).

Education
11
University Education Association

Sole bargaining agent for U of MN faculty in on Duluth and Crookston campuses

Employment
12
Muskegon City Teachers Education Association

To do collective bargaining / represent association members

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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 American Federation of Teachers Education Mn Inter Distr 287 Local 2209. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherUNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTYAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $29,600 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSCODE SAVVY: $15,000 · OtherCODE SAVVYEDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO: $15,000 · OtherEDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEOBLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $15,000 · OtherBLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERSEDUCATION MINNESOTA OSSEO ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT: $15,000 · OtherEDUCATION MINNESOTA OSSEO ADMINISTRATIVE EDUCATIONAL SUPPO…NORTH HENNEPIN CHAPTER OF MSF ASSOC: $15,000 · OtherNORTH HENNEPIN CHAPTER OF MSF ASSOCAmerican Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 287 Local 2209: $15,000 · OtherAmerican Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 2…DAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS: $15,000 · OtherDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORSDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FUND: $15,000 · OtherDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FUNDFARIBAULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherFARIBAULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59: $14,700 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59EDUCATION MINNESOTA - ROSEVILLE: $45,000 · EmploymentEDUCATION MINNESOTA - ROSEVILLEANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA: $44,950 · EmploymentANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTAWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATORS LOCAL 7286: $15,000 · EmploymentWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATORS LOCAL…WEST CENTRAL AREA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · EmploymentWEST CENTRAL AREA EDUCATION ASSOCIAT…ELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · EmploymentELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $14,996 · EmploymentAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERSPRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $29,800 · EducationPATHWAYS NORTH: $15,000 · Human ServicesBURNSVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $13,100 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$239,300Employment$149,946Education$29,800Human Services$28,100Philanthropy$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATION MINNESOTA - ROSEVILLE: $45,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA: $44,950 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $29,800 over 2y, 32% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $29,600 over 2y, 14% of budgetEDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATORS LOCAL 7286: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 287 Local 2209: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59: $14,700 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Education MinnesotaNational Education As…
Education MinnesotaMN36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Education Minnesota · National Education Association of the United States

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 Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning?

    Find your warmest path to Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning 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 23 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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