How much did LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE grant in FY2024?

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE reported 13 grants totaling $413,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE based?

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE is based in MN.

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE

To provide educational opportunities to individuals related to the production and distribution of broadcast media.

$413k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$78k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$50k–250k4 grants · $248k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

BRAINERD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$78,000
BRAINERD FAMILY YMCA$60,000
THE BRAINERD BAXTER YOUTH CENTER$60,000
CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
LAKELAND PBS$30,000
LAKES AREA UNITED WAY$30,000
BRAINERD AREA SERTOMA CLUB INC$15,000
LAKES AREA SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER$15,000
WEST CENTRAL MN YOUTH FOR CHRIST$15,000
BRIDGES OF HOPE$15,000
BRAINERD ROTARY FOUNDATION$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
PAUL BUNYAN ARBORETUM$15,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 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.

Brainerd Lakes Area Chambers of Commerce

Promote commerce in the brainerd lakes area.

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Lake Area United Way Inc

Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.

Philanthropy

Brainerd Lakes Area Development Corp

General economic development activities

Community Improvement

Lad Lake Inc

The youth in our care are some of our community's most vulnerable. nearly all have experienced child abuse and neglect, suffered addiction, aged out of foster care, been involved in the youth justice system or suffered commercial sexual…

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Lake Region Arts Council

he mission of Lake Region Arts Council is to encourage and support the vitality of the arts in West Central Minnesota.

Arts & Culture

United Way of 1000 Lakes

United way's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of itasca-area communities. our vision is an equitable itasca area where all people have the opportunities and resources needed to thrive.

Philanthropy

Lakes and Prairies Community

To eliminate poverty by empowering families and engaging communities.

Human Services

Inter-Lakes Community Action

Our mission: empowering people to embrace their strengths and opportunities.our vision: sustainable communities where children, families, and individuals reach their full potential. our values: compassion, dedication, innovation,…

Human Services

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Arrowhead Library System

Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…

Education

Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment

Two Rivers Community Land Trust

To provide permanently affordable housing alternatives for low and moderate income individuals, families, and households earning up to 80% of median income within washington county in the state of minnesota.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brainerd Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lakes Area Senior Activity 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.

03the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$110,000Education$78,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Human Services$60,000Philanthropy$60,000Arts & Culture$30,000Environment$15,000

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.

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.

CommunitygivingMN22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through 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: THE BRAINERD BAXTER YOUTH CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272547560 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 THE BRAINERD BAXTER YOUTH CENTER, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Lakes Media Collaborative?

Find your warmest path to Lakes Media Collaborative 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.

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lakes Media Collaborative?

More from the funding graph

LAKES MEDIA COLLABORATIVE

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lakes Media Collaborative?

More from the funding graph