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Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities

MACC makes collaboration real.

$782k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$357k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$766kCommunity Improvement$79kHousing & Shelter$40kYouth Development$15kInternational$8k
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k21 grants · $115k
  • $250k+2 grants · $657k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$356,650
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$300,704
PRISM$8,333
CAPI$8,333
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES$8,333
WOMEN OF NATIONS$5,000
STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING$5,000
CHANGE INC$5,000
HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC$5,000
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
THE LINK$5,000
PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER$5,000
FAMILY ENHANCEMENT CENTER$5,000
HOUSE OF CHARITY$5,000
SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 14%THE LINK: $5k → 11%WOMEN OF NATIONS: $5k → 14%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 11%PRISM: $8k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $357k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%SEWA - AIFW: $5k → 11%PRISM: $12k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $301k → 11%CHANGE INC: $5k → 11%EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 15% of Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 85%.

Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88k · 4 repeat orgs$821k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +258% since the first grant, against +97% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$88k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+258%
+97%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $746k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalInternationalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +258%
  • KC
    Keystone Community Services
    2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +142%
  • PR
    PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • FS
    FamilyWise Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • LD
    Learning Disabilities Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +200%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +97%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
2
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Touchstone Mental Health

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…

Human Services
5
Phumulani

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…

Social Science
6
Nexus Community Partners

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.

Philanthropy
7
Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota

We empower parents and communities to build supportive relationships, nurture children, and prevent child abuse and neglect.

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8
Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
9
Cornerstone Advocacy Service

Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.

Human Services
10
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
Northwest Community Action Inc

Our mission is to stimulate a focusing of all available resources upon the goal of enabling area low-income families and individuals of all ages to attain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $361,650 · Human ServicesPhyllis Wheatley Community Center IncThe Family Partnership: $300,704 · Human ServicesThe Family Partnership+9 more: $60,333 · Human Services+9 moreLearning Disabilities Association Inc: $25,000 · OtherKeystone Community Services: $20,333 · OtherHOUSE OF CHARITY: $5,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 · OtherNORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC: $5,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $17,000 · Community ImprovementThe Banyan Foundation: $5,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE 4 Youth: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFamilyWise Services: $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCAPI USA: $8,333 · InternationalSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$722,687Other$60,333Community Improvement$47,000Youth Development$30,000Health$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000International$8,333Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $361,650 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $300,704 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFamilyWise Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $20,333 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $20,333 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCAPI USA: $8,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF CHARITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN OF NATIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEWA-AIFW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LINK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Otto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…The Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Sheltering Arms F…The Sauer Family Foun…Medica FoundationXcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Target FoundationHunger Solutions Minn…
Otto Bremer TrustMN45.9× affinity21 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 · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Medica Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Target Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    16report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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