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Maggie Applauds Great Goals in Education Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.0MPhilanthropy$260kHuman Services$135kArts & Culture$105kRecreation & Sports$60kHousing & Shelter$30kAnimals$15kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$1.7M
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY$500,000
DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$280,000
THE RETREAT$250,000
THE BLAKE SCHOOL$150,000
FILMNORTH$30,000
V3 SPORTS INC$25,000
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE$10,000
NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB$10,000
826 MSP$10,000
WAY TO GROW$10,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH$10,000
BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & HISTORY CENTER$7,200
CHRIST MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,800
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$2,500
SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $10k → 11%PROJECT GOT YOUR BACK: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $100k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
WI
MI
CA
CO
DC
TX
FL

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 — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 14 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$7.4M
$550k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PA
    PROVIDENCE ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +12%
  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • DC
    DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • HR
    Hammer Residences Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • CT
    CAMP TIMBERLINEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +586%

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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
7
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
8
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
9
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
10
Minnehaha Academy

Minnehaha academy's primary purpose is to provide a high quality education to students in pre-school to grade 12 integrating christian faith and learning.

Education
11
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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12
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%61%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
14%
1,904/13,230

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROVIDENCE ACADEMY — $4,600,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE ACADEMYDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $845,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGYTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $360,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL+7 more — $152,500 · EducationINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,000,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND…THE RETREAT — $260,000 · OtherTHE RETREATIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…ST THERESE OF DEEPHAVEN — $60,000 · Other+19 more — $225,000 · Other+19 moreVENN FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHammer Residences Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesProject Got Your Back — $5,000 · Human ServicesFILMNORTH — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWAYZATA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureV3 SPORTS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TIMBERLINE — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$5,957,500Other$1,745,000Philanthropy$260,000Human Services$135,000Arts & Culture$105,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY — $4,600,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $845,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $360,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVENN FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHammer Residences Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFILMNORTH — $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budget826 MSP — $50,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP TIMBERLINE — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUATX — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Got Your Back — $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

The Minneapolis Found…Mithun Family Foundat…Longview FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Head Family Found…Mortenson Family Foun…The McKnight Foundati…Thrivent Charitable I…National Philanthropi…The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…Nivin and Duncan Macm…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN26.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mithun Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · National Philanthropic Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Nivin and Duncan Macmillan 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 organization Maggie Applauds Great Goals in Education Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

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How do I get to Maggie Applauds Great Goals in Education Inc?

Find your warmest path to Maggie Applauds Great Goals in Education Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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