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Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities
MACC makes collaboration real.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $115k
- $250k+2 grants · $657k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $356,650 |
| THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $300,704 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,333 |
| PRISM | $8,333 |
| CAPI | $8,333 |
| CHANGE INC | $5,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| HOPE 4 YOUTH | $5,000 |
| STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING | $5,000 |
| PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| FAMILY ENHANCEMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF CHARITY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $723k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities’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 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +258% since the first grant, against +97% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
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 FY2020, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $746k 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
- H4HOPE 4 Youth2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +258%
- PRPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +91%
- KCKeystone Community Services2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- FSFamilyWise Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +48%
- LDLearning Disabilities Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +200%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +97%
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.
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
Face to Face advances economic and health equity for youth while providing support, opportunities, and access to resources as they build on their strengths and achieve their aspirations. Our vision is that all youth are valued for who they…
We empower parents and communities to build supportive relationships, nurture children, and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
Preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse in communities of color throughout minnesota and the nation. by providing culturally-specific resources to women and girls of african descent, we hope to change the cycle of gender-based abuse…
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
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…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Capi Usa. 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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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.
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 Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds FamilyWise Services ↗
- Who funds Learning Disabilities Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF NATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Medica Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Target Foundation · 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 organization Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities 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.