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Magnifi Financial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$44kEducation$23kPublic Benefit$22kYouth Development$13kHuman Services$12kCrime & Legal$10kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$797k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARGO PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CITY OF WADENA$5,000
THE MELROSE AREA COMMUNITY YOUTH CE$2,500
CITY OF ALBANY$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EMPOWERING KIDS PERHAM: $3k → 9%MOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION: $9k → 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.

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 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
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
2
Protect Minnesota

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build…

Education
3
Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association Legal Defense Fund

Legal representation on behalf of participants in any civil or criminal action brought against him or her arising from any act or omission of the participant within the scope of his or her employment. legal representation in any minnesota…

4
Citizens for a Safer Minnesota

Primary Exempt Purpose- Protect Minnesota Advocacy fund supports the mission of Protect Minnesota to prevent gun violence through legislative actions community education and fudn development.

5
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis

Always with the goal of working toward a safer, more livable city, our mission is to improve working conditions for our members - police officers who work in minneapolis - and to make certain their rights are protected.

7
Childs Place

The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…

Human Services
8
Friends Against Abuse

Friends against abuse is committed to ending abuse.

9
Mother of Mercy

It is our mission as professionals to provide the best quality of life for those entrusted to us. we are a community of concerned professionals working together to provide the best quality of life for those entrusted to us. we accomplish…

10
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
11
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

12
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands of Hope Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas P Koenig Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 40 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RICHMOND LIONS CLUB — $10,000 · OtherRICHMOND LIONS CLUBAVON CAPS COMMITTEE AVON PARENTSSTA — $10,000 · OtherAVON CAPS COMMITTEE AVON PARENTSSTAIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF MELROSE — $7,000 · OtherCITY OF MELROSEIndividual grant recipient — $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWATERS CHURCH — $7,000 · OtherWATERS CHURCHWADENA DEER CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $6,000 · OtherWADENA DEER CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLSALBANY AREA SCHOOL — $5,125 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MN — $5,000 · OtherPATHWAYS 4 YOUTH — $5,000 · OtherSOMEPLACE SAFE — $5,000 · OtherBELGRADE-BROOTEN-ELROSA PUBLIC SCHO — $5,000 · OtherCITY OF WADENA — $5,000 · Other+19 more — $22,000 · Other+19 moreMOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesEmpowering Kids Perham — $2,500 · Human ServicesANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $500 · Human ServicesFargo Park District Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsEAGLES HEALING NEST — $7,000 · Public BenefitHANDS OF HOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsNICHOLAS P KOENIG FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthKINSHIP OF THE PERHAM AREA — $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$109,125Human Services$11,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Public Benefit$7,000Civil Rights$5,000Health$5,000Youth Development$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRICHMOND LIONS CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFargo Park District Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOMEPLACE SAFE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNICHOLAS P KOENIG FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetEmpowering Kids Perham — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKINSHIP OF THE PERHAM AREA — $2,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds RICHMOND LIONS CLUB
  • Who funds Fargo Park District Foundation
  • Who funds MOTHER OF MERCY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST
  • Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE
  • Who funds HANDS OF HOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds NICHOLAS P KOENIG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Empowering Kids Perham
  • Who funds KINSHIP OF THE PERHAM AREA
  • Who funds ALBANY FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE

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.

CommunitygivingMN19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · West Central Initiative · Initiative Foundation · 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 organization Magnifi Financial Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Magnifi Financial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Magnifi Financial Foundation 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 40 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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