· Public charity
Greater Minneapolis Community Connection
Gmcc is an interfaith, multicultural nonprofit organization with a mission "uniting people of faith, serving people in need." we have a 117 year old history collaborating with communites to addressinequities and disparities throughout minnesota through a variety of initiatives and services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $31,459 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $133,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $101,735 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SANNEH FOUNDATION CONWAY PARK | $14,487 |
| CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF | $8,972 |
| RURAL RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +127% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- EMEVERY MEAL4× · 2019–2022 · $53k · revenue +364%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR3× · 2020–2022 · $29k · revenue +69%
- CCCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- LTLEAD THE WAY MNone grant, 2021 · $35k
- SMSPROUT MNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +43%
- SCSANCTUARY COVENANT CHURCH MINNEAPOLIS MNone grant, 2020 · $23k
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.
To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.
Committed to eliminating hunger and food-insecurity; as well as improving the health and well-being of the community through equitable access to healthy and nutritious foods, community education and advocacy.
By utilizing and bringing together community resources the willmar area food shelf will provide food assistance to individuals and families. our goal is to insure no one goes hungry.
End hunger together.
To assist individuals and families meet their basic needs by providing resources in a healthy and caring environment. through these actions we build hope and support self-sufficiency.
Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .
Fighting hunger. nourishing our community.
Meals from the Heart is a nonprofit organization that brings people together to serve their neighbors through easy to execute, energized and fun meal packing events building relationships and strengthening communities while providing…
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
Emergency food assistance to families in the Minneapolis surrounding areas.
Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Channel One Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lead the Way Mn. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 DARUL HADIITH LLC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds LEAD THE WAY MN ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds SPROUT MN ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds MELROSE AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ONE INC ↗
- Who funds CASS LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds RURAL RENEWABLE ENERGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY COMMUNITY HELP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS INC ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allina Health System
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 Greater Minneapolis Community Connection 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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