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· Public charity
MAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION
To empower people to achieve self-sufficiency.
$7.5M
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
1
Communities
$215k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Human Services$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHousing & Shelter$346kReligion$50kOther$345k
02FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
$39,491
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$215,433
- LAKES & PRAIRIES CAP INC$87,710
- EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC$58,820
- TRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY$58,232
- CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP$39,491
- WEST CENTRAL MN COMMUNITY ACTION$29,237
- NORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION$15,769
- CASS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH$12,658
- CHURCHES UNITED$10,235
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 (FY18–24, $846k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 10 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
1
Total granted
$4.2M
$5k
Still filing today
90%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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
- BCBI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%
- LPLAKES & PRAIRIES CAP INC7× · 2018–2024 · $711k · revenue +104%
- TOTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY7× · 2018–2024 · $687k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TCTODD COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
Community Improvement
2
West Central Community Action
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Human Services
3
Community Council of Idaho Inc
To strengthen families in our communities by offering opportunities in education, housing, health, employment and legal services.
Human Services
4
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
5
Tri-County Community Action
To engage the entire community to listen to and partner with low-income individuals and families to expand their opportunities to move out of economic poverty and toward prosperity.
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6
Gmn Tri-County Community Action
Provide resources through a variety of programs for the purpose of assisting low-income individuals.
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7
Worcester Community Action Council Inc
Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
Human Services
8
Community Action of Southeast Iowa
To serve as an advocate of the poor & elderly & to provide programs to help eliminate poverty.
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9
West Virginia Community Action Partnersh
West virginia community action partnership is an alliance of community action agencies that supports and strengthens our members, advocates for low-income and families and promotes partnerships.
Community Improvement
10
Community Action Commission
Community action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
Human Services
11
Mid Willamette Valley Community Action
Providing vital services and resources; meeting the needs of our community
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12
West Central Initiative
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. uniting ideas and resources to help people and communities create a better tomorrow.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tri-Valley Opportunity Council Inc. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$2,481,356Community Improvement$1,016,668Housing & Shelter$346,396Other$344,919Religion$50,003
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.
- Who funds BI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES & PRAIRIES CAP INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds INTER-COUNTY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED ↗
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.
Northwest Minnesota FoundationMN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · North Country Food Bank Inc · Medica Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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 organisation MAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
05Through 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: BI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +50% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 410885981 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 BI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Mahube-Otwa Community Action?
Find your warmest path to Mahube-Otwa Community Action 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.
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By state
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