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Knights of Columbus MN State Council
We are a Catholic, family, fraternal, service organization dedicated to the values and faith of the Roman Catholic Church through the activities of members and their councils that promote charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism.
$534k
Granted FY2025
6
Grants
1
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of Knights of Columbus MN State Council’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
education religiousreligious orderdevelopmentally disabled
2020
religious educationwheelchairmobilitydisabled
2021
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2022
—
2023
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2025
disabilities
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$14,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Special Olympics Minnesota$100,000
- True Friends Camp Courage$17,635
- Diocese of Crookston MN$14,800
- The ARC Greater Twin Cities$11,055
- Homeward Bound$8,354
- Catholic Fdn of Southern MN$6,400
02The need
04
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 (FY18–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$797k · 15 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
5
Total granted
$797k
$47k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+59%
+121%
Still filing today
47%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentHealthOther
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
- SOSpecial Olympics Minnesota Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $180k · revenue +59%
- TFTrue Friends Camp Courage3× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +14%
- DODiocese of Winona3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- AWAMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +121%
- TRTransportation Resource to Aid Indeone grant, 2018 · $6k
- ASARC SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +38%
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.
1
Abilitypath Housing
To advance advocacy, inclusion, and independence for people with developmental disabilities
Human Services
2
Abilitypath
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Employment
3
The Arc Minnesota Inc
The arc minnesota promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, actively supporting them and their families in a lifetime of full inclusion and participation in their communities.
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4
Abilityfirst
Help children & adults with physical & developmental disabilities realize their full potential throughout their lives.
Human Services
5
Dakotabilities Inc
Administers programs to train, educate, rehabilitate, and provide therapy to disabled adults.
Human Services
6
Abilities Network Inc
To cultivate inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Health
7
Able Inc
To provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents.
Human Services
8
Abilities Inc
The mission of Abilities Inc is to increase the employment of people with disabilities by providing assessments, skills training, job placement and job retention.
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9
Connectability of Mn Inc
Connectability of mn, inc. empowers people with physical and invisible barries to achieve their potential.
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10
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Human Services
11
Cape Abilities Inc
Training & job placement and resident services to disabled adults.
Human Services
12
Service Enterprises Inc of Minnesota
Provides vocational training, job opportunities, and other services to people with disabilities
Employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound Inc and the most unlike its peers is Confidence Learning Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$704,827Human Services$87,372Recreation & Sports$53,838Employment$10,423Health$5,015
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 Special Olympics Minnesota Inc ↗
- Who funds True Friends Camp Courage ↗
- Who funds Diocese of Winona ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds Northeast Residence and Respite ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound Inc ↗
- Who funds Confidence Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Lifeworks Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The ARC Greater Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds Proact ↗
- Who funds ARC SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome Association of MN ↗
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.
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Communitygiving · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation Knights of Columbus MN State Council 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
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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: AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264571639 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 AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR MISSION, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Knights of Columbus MN State Council?
Find your warmest path to Knights of Columbus MN State Council 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines