· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of EDUCATION MINNESOTA FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING & LEARNING’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $267,832 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $237,832 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON | $15,000 |
| WEST ST PAUL FEDERATION OF TEACHERS | $15,000 |
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 (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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AHANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA3× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue +12%
- UTUNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY2× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +12%
- PSPRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +284% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCODE SAVVYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
- EMEDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEOone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +13%
- BFBLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERSone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -14%
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.
Teachers' labor representation and professional organization for minnesota isd 621.
Labor Union
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…
Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.
We are a labor union that represents public school teachers in the Cambridge-Isanti school district.
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.
We are a local teachers union serving the Owatonna Public School District. We support educators so they can support success for all students.
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).
Sole bargaining agent for U of MN faculty in on Duluth and Crookston campuses
To do collective bargaining / represent association members
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Minnesota - Osseo and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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
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 EDUCATION MINNESOTA - ROSEVILLE ↗
- Who funds ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNITED TEACHERS OF SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PRIOR - SAVAGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds CODE SAVVY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION MINNESOTA - OSSEO ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS NORTH ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATORS LOCAL 7286 ↗
- Who funds American Federation of Teachers Education MN Inter Distr 287 Local 2209 ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE FACULTY ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL AREA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA COUNTY UNITED EDUCATORS DENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 59 ↗
- Who funds BURNSVILLE 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 · National Education Association of the United States
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 Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learning 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.
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