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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(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$158k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$14,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Knights of Columbus MN State Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
FY2025still arriving6$158k33%
FY20241$60k0%
FY20231$60k0%
FY20221$30k0%
FY20211$30k100%
FY20208$133k13%
FY201914$197k0%
FY201817$253k35%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$460kReligion$314kRecreation & Sports$298kHuman Services$21kEmployment$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Olympics Minnesota$280,0005n/a
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$240,00041%
Diocese of Crookston$79,1955n/a
True Friends$72,82840%
Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis$56,8534n/a
Diocese of New Ulm Mn Education Center$47,6784n/a
Northeast Residence Inc$42,20430%
Arc Minnesota$40,8433n/a
Diocese of St Cloud$39,6014n/a
Education Center-Diocese of Duluth$39,5004n/a
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Knights of Columbus MN State Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Olympics Minnesota$280,0005n/a
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$240,00041%
Diocese of Crookston$79,1955n/a
True Friends$72,82840%
Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis$56,8534n/a
Diocese of New Ulm Mn Education Center$47,6784n/a
Northeast Residence Inc$42,20430%
Arc Minnesota$40,8433n/a
Diocese of St Cloud$39,6014n/a
Education Center-Diocese of Duluth$39,5004n/a
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester$39,50040%
American Wheelchair Foundation$25,00012%
Proact Inc$15,84730%
Homeward Bound Inc$14,25920%
The Arc of the United States$11,84420%
Confidence Learning Center Inc$11,50920%
Lifeworks Services Inc$11,42920%
The Arc Greater Twin Cities$11,0551n/a
Catholic Foundation$6,4001n/a
Trail$6,2511n/a
Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota$5,01511%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Knights of Columbus MN State Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpecial Olympics Minnesota Inc: $240,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTrue Friends: $72,828 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast Residence Inc: $42,204 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester: $39,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Wheelchair Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetProact Inc: $15,847 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeward Bound Inc: $14,259 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of the United States: $11,844 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConfidence Learning Center Inc: $11,509 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLifeworks Services Inc: $11,429 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Minnesota: $5,015 over 1y, 1.3% 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 11.

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.

The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Richard M Schulze Family FoundationMN14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Knights of Columbus MN State Council?

Find your warmest path to Knights of Columbus MN State Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Knights of Columbus MN State Council

How much does Knights of Columbus MN State Council give?
Knights of Columbus MN State Council reported 6 itemized grants totaling $158,244, out of $534,055 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Knights of Columbus MN State Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Religion (28%), Recreation & Sports (27%).
Who are Knights of Columbus MN State Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Olympics Minnesota ($280k), Special Olympics Minnesota Inc ($240k), Diocese of Crookston ($79k).
Does Knights of Columbus MN State Council fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Knights of Columbus MN State Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Knights of Columbus MN State Council based?
Knights of Columbus MN State Council 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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