How much did GREAT MN SCHOOLS grant in FY2025?

GREAT MN SCHOOLS reported 24 grants totaling $1,100,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is GREAT MN SCHOOLS based?

GREAT MN SCHOOLS is based in MN.

GREAT MN SCHOOLS

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· Public charity

GREAT MN SCHOOLS

Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$315k

Largest

01What you fund

0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$6.1MHuman Services$677kCrime & Legal$150kArts & Culture$65kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$25kEmployment$20kOther$925k

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k19 grants · $504k
$50k–250k4 grants · $277k
$250k+1 grant · $315k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$216k

Total assets

Largest grants

PRODEO ACADEMY$315,000
HENNEPIN SCHOOLS$110,000
GLOBAL ACADEMY$62,100
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$55,000
LEAD THE WAY MN$50,000
CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN$47,500
STANDING TOGETHER AND NEVER DIVIDED UP MINNESOTA PARENTS UNITED$35,000
LITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION$35,000
WAY TO GROW$30,000
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$30,000
ED ALLIES$30,000
MN ZEJ ZOG$30,000
URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$30,000
EDUCATION EVOLVING$30,000
EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 30 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+42%

Still filing today

90%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalReligionEmploymentOther

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

HA
HIAWATHA ACADEMIES
5× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
PA
PRODEO ACADEMY
6× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
HS
HENNEPIN SCHOOLS
6× · 2018–2025 · $839k · revenue +36%

Funded once

BE
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $225k · revenue +45%
NM
NEW MILLENNIUM ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $74k · revenue +42%
GM
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +103%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Level Up Academy

By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.

Education

Minnesota Internship Center

To partner with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success.

Education

St Paul School of Northern Lights

Exploring our urban ecosystem, St. Paul School of Northern Lights ensures a progressive, relationship-based learning process, educating students to be kind, curious, critical thinkers who are advocating for positive change in their diverse…

Education

Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School

Academia cesar chavez acc is dedicated to providing quality dual language education that prepares critical thinking, socially competent, values driven, and culturally aware bilingual and bi literate learners by advocat

Education

The World Learner School of Chaska

To create a school that supports an experiential collaborative learning (Montessori).

Housing & Shelter

Minnesota Transitions Charter School

We are a student-centered learning community that inspires and supports all learners to achieve excellence through equitable, relevant learning experiences.

Education

Minndependent

Connect and strengthen minnesota's independent schools through exceptional training, resources, and advocacy so they can be student-centered and mission driven.

Education

Phoenix Academy

Offer a curriculum that is more experiential and personally appealing to students.

Education

Universal Academy

Universal Academy will provide success for all students with high quality learning, empowerment and support from a caring and nurturing staff.

Education

Friends School of Minnesota

To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.

Education

Great Mn Schools

Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.

Education

Nova Classical Academy

Offering a rigorous, through, systematic, and challenging classical education to K-12 students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Millennium Academy and the most unlike its peers is Harweyn Founation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

12%

1,637/13,223

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.

04the grantee network

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

29/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$6,111,268Other$925,000Human Services$676,500Crime & Legal$150,000Arts & Culture$65,000Religion$35,000Philanthropy$25,000Employment$20,000

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN50.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Wem Foundation · Ciresi Walburn Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · General Mills Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · Propel Nonprofits · Mightycause Charitable 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 organisation GREAT MN SCHOOLS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEAD THE WAY MN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851669729 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEAD THE WAY MN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Great Mn Schools?

Find your warmest path to Great Mn Schools through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREAT MN SCHOOLS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Mn Schools?

More from the funding graph

GREAT MN SCHOOLS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Mn Schools?

More from the funding graph