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Members Cooperative Credit Union
To make our communities stronger, our employees happier, and our world better.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $87,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $176,207 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,707 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANDMA'S MARATHON | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA REGENTS | $10,000 |
| MCCU COMMUNITY YOUTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DULUTH AIR SHOW | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GMGRANDMA'S MARATHON-DULUTH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +31%
- BPBONG P-38 FUND INC5× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +65%
- NENORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +324%
Funded once
- MCMINNESOTA CREDIT UNION NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +6%
- EHESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +29%
- DCDULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
The duluth library foundation champions the duluth public library and works to increase its capacity to serve the region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
The mission of the minneapolis regional chamber development foundation is to offer innovative ways of reducing unemployment, improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth, initiate and conduct leadership development programs…
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Essentia Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cloquet Shaw Memorial Public Library Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 GRANDMA'S MARATHON-DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BONG P-38 FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CREDIT UNION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA A-A-E ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CLOQUET SHAW MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community 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 Members Cooperative Credit Union 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.
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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