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Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc

Trellis (the Organization) assists individuals to age successfully and develops the capacity of communities to care for an aging population.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$53MFood & Nutrition$30MHealth$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.5MInternational$1.3MReligion$590kHousing & Shelter$308kRecreation & Sports$212kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+8 grants · $10.0M
$99,911
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Open Arms of Minnesota$2,876,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES$2,626,004
METRO MEALS ON WHEELS$2,004,169
SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY$918,816
Volunteers of AmericaMN$519,509
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$464,268
HELP AT YOUR DOOR$305,783
EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC$265,433
FAMILY MEANS$248,575
DARTS$237,401
KOREAN SERVICE CENTER$170,175
MID MN LEGAL AID$169,073
Touchstone Mental Health Services$168,012
SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SVCS$166,596
LAO ADVANCEMENT ORG OF AMERICA$162,570
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $34.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Scott-Carver-Dakota Cap Agency: $1.1M → 5%Family Means: $271k → 6%Anoka County Community Action Program: $190k → 7%Scott-Carver-Dakota Cap Agency: $938k → 5%FAMILY MEANS: $249k → 6%DARTS: $237k → 6%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY: $919k → 5%Family Means: $248k → 6%Darts: $201k → 6%Scott-Carver-Dakota Cap Agency: $911k → 5%FAMILY MEANS: $211k → 6%DARTS: $182k → 6%SCOTT-CARVER-DAKOTA CAP AGENCY: $907k → 5%Darts: $166k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $464k → 11%Scott-Carver-Dakota Cap Agency: $510k → 5%DARTS: $163k → 6%Senior Community Services: $359k → 11%Scott-Carver-Dakota Cap Agency: $303k → 5%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $268k → 11%Scott-Carver-Dakota CAP Agency: $296k → 5%Senior Community Services: $240k → 11%Senior Community Services: $219k → 11%Senior Community Services: $196k → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $3.1M → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $2.9M → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $2.8M → 11%Open Arms of Minnesota: $2.6M → 11%Centro Inc: $205k → 11%Centro Inc: $187k → 11%Touchstone Mental Health Services: $169k → 11%Touchstone Mental Health Services: $168k → 11%CENTRO INC: $160k → 11%Amherst Wilder Foundation: $277k → 14%Amherst Wilder Foundation: $221k → 14%Jewish Family Community Svcs of Mpls: $152k → 11%Jewish Community Ctr of St Paul: $188k → 14%Eastside Neighborhood Services Inc: $326k → 11%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $265k → 11%Eastside Neighborhood Services Inc: $258k → 11%Eastside Neighborhood Services Inc: $231k → 11%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $230k → 11%Korean Service Center: $356k → 11%Korean Service Center: $217k → 11%KOREAN SERVICE CENTER: $208k → 11%Korean Service Center: $173k → 11%KOREAN SERVICE CENTER: $170k → 11%Korean Service Center: $153k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$88M · 55 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
31

Total granted

$88M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +47%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +41% · 30% of their budget
  • MM
    METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +161% · 79% of their budget

Funded once

  • PH
    Presbyterian Home & Services
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
  • LO
    Land of the Dancing Sky AAA
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +103%

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.

1
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
2
Walker Adult Day Services

Walker Adult Day Services supports healthy aging with a focus on boosting overall wellness. Offering a range of helpful services all in one place, the program makes it easy for people facing isolation from physical or emotional challenges…

Human Services
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

4
Care Providers of Minnesota

Trade association whose mission is to empower members to excellence through advocacy, education, expertise, resources and support.

5
Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc

Trellis (the Organization) assists individuals to age successfully and develops the capacity of communities to care for an aging population.

Human Services
6
Mount Olivet Day Services

To provide high quality care for children and seniors while promoting respect and understanding through intentional intergenerational interaction.

Housing & Shelter
7
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
8
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
9
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

10
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

11
West Side Community Health Services Inc Inc

Minnesota community care's mission is strengthening the well-being of our community through health care for all.

Health
12
Leadingage Minnesota

Leadingage minnesota is driven to transform and enhance the experience of aging. we build member capacity by providing business intelligence tools, advocacy, education and networking; lead transformation and innovation of care delivery;…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Minnesota Area Agency On Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wholistic Health U. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInstitutional Fundraising F…Community Health Care Syste…Affordable Housing Developm…Healthcare Philanthropy & R…Early Childhood Education C…Youth Support ServicesMember-Owned Credit Unions
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr15%55%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/92
the rest of the field
13%
2,647/20,041

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.

04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 93 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
49/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES — $18,834,657 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICESVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA — $11,273,290 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNES…Presbyterian Home & Services — $2,454,067 · OtherPresbyterian Home & ServicesHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $1,942,251 · Other+40 more — $7,779,188 · Other+40 moreOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $11,391,999 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTASCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC — $5,879,556 · Human ServicesSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INCSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $2,033,560 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $1,663,120 · Human ServicesKorean Service Center — $1,530,955 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANS — $1,508,323 · Human ServicesDARTS — $1,179,763 · Human Services+27 more — $8,947,743 · Human Services+27 moreMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,302,661 · Food & NutritionMETRO MEALS …LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $1,471,931 · EducationFAITH COMMUNITY NURSE NETWORK OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $270,096 · Education+1 more — $16,295 · EducationSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,240,940 · Crime & LegalNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — $273,353 · HealthSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $144,522 · HealthHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE — $61,805 · Health+6 more — $51,055 · HealthCAPI USA — $384,207 · International
Other$42,283,453Human Services$34,135,019Food & Nutrition$10,302,661Education$1,758,322Crime & Legal$1,240,940Health$530,735International$384,207

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES — $18,834,657 over 7y, 11% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $11,391,999 over 4y, 30% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA — $11,273,290 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,302,661 over 6y, 79% of budgetSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC — $5,879,556 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $2,033,560 over 8y, 19% of budgetHELP AT YOUR DOOR — $1,942,251 over 8y, 39% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC — $1,663,120 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetKorean Service Center — $1,530,955 over 8y, 19% of budgetFAMILYMEANS — $1,508,323 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetLAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA — $1,471,931 over 8y, 80% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,240,940 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDARTS — $1,179,763 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $1,011,155 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $990,674 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetLYNGBLOMSTEN CARE CENTER INC — $822,462 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $790,067 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $746,603 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA — $708,698 over 8y, 31% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $581,353 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $577,720 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $559,975 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $533,411 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $529,443 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $404,679 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetLIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM INC — $398,261 over 7y, 62% of budgetCAPI USA — $384,207 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA-BCOM- — $382,852 over 7y, 36% of budgetMinnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc — $361,641 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $360,947 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $303,241 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center — $295,522 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $293,724 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES — $273,353 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetFAITH COMMUNITY NURSE NETWORK OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $270,096 over 5y, 20% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA — $269,858 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetNEWTRAX INC — $202,714 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program — $198,993 over 5y, 24% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $145,924 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $144,522 over 4y, 17% of budgetTRUST INC — $117,114 over 3y, 11% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $110,686 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE — $61,805 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $55,876 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetESRInc — $55,189 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE — $46,922 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOROMO COMMUNITY INC MINNEAPOLISST — $38,826 over 1y, 16% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 PRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA
  • Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC
  • Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR
  • Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Korean Service Center
  • Who funds FAMILYMEANS
  • Who funds LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds DARTS
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN
  • Who funds LYNGBLOMSTEN CARE CENTER INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds UNITED CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
  • Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH
  • Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK
  • Who funds SEWA-AIFW
  • Who funds LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds CAPI USA
  • Who funds BHUTANESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA-BCOM-
  • Who funds Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES
  • Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON AGING INC
  • Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL
  • Who funds NORTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY 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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN60× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Stevens Square Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Medica Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Allina Health System · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Area Agency on Aging Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    34report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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