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Karen Organization of Minnesota

To build on the strengths of refugee and immigrant communities and remove barriers to achieving economic, social, and cultural wellbeing.

$745k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$51,096
Largest grant, FY2024
$175,464
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Karen Organization of Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$745k27%
FY202311$652k18%
FY20229$520k22%
FY20217$454k0%
FY20207$425k29%
FY20198$263k38%
FY20185$242k20%
FY20177$266kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.3MEmployment$667kYouth Development$527kHealth$90kEducation$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Karen Organization of Minnesota by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Afghan Cultural Society of Mn$526,819336%
Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota$417,758440%
Change Inc$359,63561%
Oromo Community Inc Minneapolisst$299,288543%
Korean Service Center$283,04163%
Capi USA$255,28935%
Ukrainian American Community Center Inc$228,686213%
Korean Adoptees Ministry Center$204,723655%
Sewa-Aifw$204,15964%
Arrive Ministries$202,65935%
Isd 623$186,5327n/a
Bhutanese Community Organization of Minnesota-Bcom-$106,963328%
Restoration for All Inc$90,40026%
The Urban Village Inc$81,031111%
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota$39,85523%
Stillwater Area Public Schools$21,6352n/a
Roseville Area School District 623 Foundation$16,460123%
More$15,82516%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College$13,3471n/a
Avivo$12,3251n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Karen Organization of Minnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfghan Cultural Society of Mn: $526,819 over 3y, 36% of budgetConfederation of Somali Community in Minnesota: $417,758 over 4y, 40% of budgetChange Inc: $359,635 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOromo Community Inc Minneapolisst: $299,288 over 5y, 43% of budgetKorean Service Center: $283,041 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCapi USA: $255,289 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUkrainian American Community Center Inc: $228,686 over 2y, 13% of budgetKorean Adoptees Ministry Center: $204,723 over 6y, 55% of budgetSewa-Aifw: $204,159 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetArrive Ministries: $202,659 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBhutanese Community Organization of Minnesota-Bcom-: $106,963 over 3y, 28% of budgetRestoration for All Inc: $90,400 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThe Urban Village Inc: $81,031 over 1y, 11% of budgetVietnamese Social Services of Minnesota: $39,855 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetRoseville Area School District 623 Foundation: $16,460 over 1y, 23% of budgetMore: $15,825 over 1y, 6.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN31.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Karen Organization of Minnesota

How much does Karen Organization of Minnesota give?
Karen Organization of Minnesota reported 11 grants totaling $744,979 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Karen Organization of Minnesota fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (64%), Employment (19%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Karen Organization of Minnesota's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Afghan Cultural Society of Mn ($527k), Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota ($418k), Change Inc ($360k).
Does Karen Organization of Minnesota fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Karen Organization of Minnesota?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Karen Organization of Minnesota based?
Karen Organization of Minnesota is based in MN.

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 20 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 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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