· Public charity
Lake Street Council
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lul Bros Properties | $50,000 |
| Southside Community Health Services Inc | $50,000 |
| Kushite Art Gallery LLC | $27,500 |
| Grass Roots LLC | $25,000 |
| Don Pedro LLC | $25,000 |
| Dem Properties | $25,000 |
| Odigo Properties LLC | $24,500 |
| Solcana Fitness LLC | $22,000 |
| Taco Taxi Inc | $14,350 |
| Jungle Theatre | $13,000 |
| New York Plaza LLC | $12,500 |
| Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches (GMCC) | $11,080 |
| Umbra Arts LLC | $10,648 |
| Queermunity Collaborative LLC | $10,000 |
| Lake Auto Center | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 21 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSEWARD REDESIGN INC2× · 2021–2022 · $115k · revenue +63%
- FPFIREHOUSE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +240%
- CACHICAGO AVENUE FIRE ARTS CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ADAPEX DENTAL SYSTEMS DBA MINNESOTA DENTAL CAREone grant, 2020 · $125k
- BPBANADIR PHARMACY LLCone grant, 2020 · $125k
- CLCHICAGO LAKE FAMILY DENTALone grant, 2020 · $125k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wonderlust Productions is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts ensemble that illuminates a community's story through performance, mixing community members from across generations, ethnicities, and perspectives, alongside an ensemble of…
Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…
The Center for Economic Inclusion is an organization committed to strengthening the Minneapolis - Saint Paul region's civic infrastructure and collective capacity to disrupt systems and influence market forces to catalyze shared prosperity…
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.
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 promote intercultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance. The Cedar is committed to artistic excellence and integrity, diversity of programming, support for emerging artists and community…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
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.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
Making the arts accessible to all
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 446 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEWARD REDESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Pangea World Theater ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
- Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Somali American Community ↗
- Who funds FIREHOUSE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Target Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Propel Nonprofits · The Minneapolis Foundation · The James M Stanton Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · Allina Health System · Youthprise · Northwest Area Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lake Street Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake Street Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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