· Public charity
Karen Organization of Minnesota
To build on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and remove barriers to achieving economic, social, and cultural wellbeing.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN | $175,464 |
| UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $162,529 |
| THE URBAN VILLAGE | $81,031 |
| RESTORATION FOR ALL INC | $72,945 |
| CHANGE INC (GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROG) | $62,834 |
| OROMO COMMUNITY OF MN | $51,096 |
| KOREAN SERVICE CENTER | $45,442 |
| KAM CENTER | $38,862 |
| SEWA-AIFW | $22,490 |
| ROSEVILLE AREA SCHOOLS | $16,460 |
| MORE (V) | $15,825 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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 +99% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- ACAFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN3× · 2022–2024 · $527k · revenue +342% · 36% of their budget
- CICHANGE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +115%
- KSKorean Service Center6× · 2019–2024 · $283k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FDFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $13k
- AAVIVOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +44%
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 assist new americans arriving from africa become productive and well-adjusted citizens.
Guided by our faith values, ICOM stands in solidarity with immigrants, refugees and their families. Our volunteer network provides a variety of compassionate support.
Foster understanding and cultural exchange between american and chinese peoples and assist new immigrants in the greater minneapolis area to achieve economic self-sufficiency, social empowerment, and cultural appreciation.
Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.
To conduct religious and cultural works helping new immigrants adapt to a new enviorment bridging communities of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.
The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
The international institute of minnesota helps new americans become self-sufficient and fully contributing members in our society. the institute provides quality programs and services that help new americans move lives forward. our…
To build on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and remove barriers to achieving economic, social, and cultural wellbeing.
Serve the vietnamese community within minnesota
African community senior services is guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and underserved communities, in minneapolis and st paul, through its programs that promote health, transportation, education, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoration for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roseville Area School District 623 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY OF MN ↗
- Who funds CONFEDERATION OF SOMALI COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds OROMO COMMUNITY INC MINNEAPOLISST ↗
- Who funds Korean Service Center ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Korean Adoptees Ministry Center ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA-BCOM- ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ROSEVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT 623 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORE ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · Propel Nonprofits · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of the North · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Karen Organization of Minnesota 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.