How much did METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED grant in FY2020?

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED reported 23 grants totaling $782,353 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

Where is METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED based?

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED is based in MN.

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED

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· Public charity

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED

MACC makes collaboration real.

$782k

Granted FY2020

Grants

Communities

$357k

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.

Human Services$709kCommunity Improvement$42kYouth Development$30kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$92k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

social enterprise

2020

covid resiliencedrop-in care

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k21 grants · $115k
$250k+2 grants · $657k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$356,650
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$300,704
CAPI$8,333
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES$8,333
PRISM$8,333
EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$5,000
THE LINK$5,000
NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$5,000
SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC$5,000
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
CHANGE INC$5,000
HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC$5,000
BANYAN COMMUNITY$5,000
FAMILY ENHANCEMENT CENTER$5,000
HOPE 4 YOUTH$5,000

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 (FY17–20, $709k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTEDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$67k · 3 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +105% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$67k

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%

+105%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

H4
HOPE 4 YOUTH
2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +69%
KC
Keystone Community Services
2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +142%
NE
NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK
2× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +351%

Funded once

LM
LDA MINNESOTAgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +128%
F
FAMILYWISEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +54%
NH
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +105%

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.

Family Pathways

Work alongside people and the community to enhance lives and champion positive social change.

Human Services

Partners for Affordable Housing

Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.

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The Dwelling Place

Providing safe housing and holistic programs for women and children escaping abuse.

Human Services

Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health

The Cookie Cart

The Cookie Cart is a nonprofit community corporation that provides leadership and employment skills for youth in North Minneapolis and East St. Paul, Minnesota.

Youth Development

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Minnesota Family Council

Strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena.

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Young Women's Christian Association

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services

West Central Minnesota Communities

Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.

Community Improvement

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud is a nonprofit human services organization that in 2024 served 47,220 individuals of all faiths and beliefs across Central Minnesota.

Human Services

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center

Fostering healthy lives and thriving communities.

Health

Cornerstone Advocacy Service

Cornerstone was founded in 1983, with a current mission of helping to create communities where individuals and families are safe and children thrive. Our core services focus on serving victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, human…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood House and the most unlike its peers is Merrick Community Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

20 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)

18/20

Grantees still filing

18/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$709,354Other$91,999Community Improvement$42,000Youth Development$30,000Health$25,000Crime & Legal$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN39.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Medica Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Target Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry And · Hunger Solutions Minnesota

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 METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED 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

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: PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 410706132 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 PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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 Metropolitan Alliance of Connected?

Find your warmest path to Metropolitan Alliance of Connected 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.

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metropolitan Alliance of Connected?

More from the funding graph

METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Metropolitan Alliance of Connected?

More from the funding graph