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Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc at a glance

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Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$576k
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$120k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$443kPhilanthropy$210kYouth Development$113kEducation$95kRecreation & Sports$90kHuman Services$57kHealth$44kArts & Culture$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k114 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$120,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$63,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN$40,000
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC$30,000
ST CLOUD TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$15,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE$10,000
PCD KS FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$10,000
WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE$5,000
NORTHLAND FOUNDATION$5,000
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$5,000
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZ: $1k → 12%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $2k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NE
VA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$731k · 48 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
10

Total granted

$731k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +8%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • SC
    ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIKE SILVA EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • YC
    YOUTH CHORALE OF CENTRAL MINNESOTAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +30%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +6%
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
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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7
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
8
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
9
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
10
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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11
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
12
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners Inc. 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

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
43/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $260,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDATIONGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $140,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION+2 more: $17,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $149,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTABIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN: $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MNSt Cloud Area Family YMCA: $17,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $16,000 · Other+49 more: $138,750 · Other+49 moreACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsMid Mn Cycling Club: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $3,150 · Recreation & SportsST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38,000 · EducationST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $9,000 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $6,000 · Education+5 more: $5,500 · EducationCOMMUNITYGIVING: $44,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $7,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $12,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKS: $2,000 · Human ServicesPROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesPCD KS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $2,000 · HealthTEREBINTH REFUGE: $2,000 · Health+4 more: $2,354 · Health
Community Improvement$417,500Other$421,250Recreation & Sports$88,150Education$75,500Philanthropy$62,000Human Services$42,000Health$39,854

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 budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $149,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $140,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPCD KS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSt Cloud Area Family YMCA: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $10,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE: $10,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIKE SILVA EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUGAAD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCELEBRATE MINNESOTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMid Mn Cycling Club: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MINNESOTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CHORALE OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJosiah Venture: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST INC CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIRTH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUIET OAKS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROP SHOP OF EDEN PRAIRIE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

CommunitygivingRick and Helga Bauerl…Morgan Family Foundat…Initiative FoundationUnited Way of Central…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Central Minnesota Art…Ja Wedum FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…
CommunitygivingMN71.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Ja Wedum Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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 Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc?

Find your warmest path to Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc 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 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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