Minnesota · Public charity
Metropolitan Economic Development Association
Helping minority entrepreneurs succeed.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $89,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $64M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Metropolitan Economic Development Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $1.1M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $346k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $295k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $325k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $71k | n/a |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Community Improvement$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$165kFood & Nutrition$140kHuman Services$134kHealth$120kEnvironment$109kEmployment$89kArts & Culture$65kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce | $1,000,000 | 1 | 69% |
| Intent Energy LLC | $89,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Zoo | $61,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Taste of Rondo | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christina's Child Care Center | $25,500 | 2 | n/a |
| TurnSignl | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Select Contracting LLC | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wugs Vending | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Objective Biotechnology Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Novart Media | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce | $1,000,000 | 1 | 69% |
| Intent Energy LLC | $89,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Zoo | $61,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Taste of Rondo | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christina's Child Care Center | $25,500 | 2 | n/a |
| TurnSignl | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Select Contracting LLC | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wugs Vending | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Objective Biotechnology Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Novart Media | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Howard's Bar Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gramsky's | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| C Stone Landscape LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| La Fusion Restaurant LLC | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| H2overhaul Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| TLC Millimeter Wave Products Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| JAB Holdings LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eggroll Queen | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yahweh laundromat and cleaning services | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tacos El Kevin | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Howard's Bar Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| CarePoint Home Health LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Archived Expressions LLC dba Mind's Eye Comics | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Plus Universal Child Care and Learning Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| ' The Harvest ' Enterprise LLC | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minuteman Press Uptown | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fitz Realestate | $10,427 | 1 | n/a |
| Next Global Security | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sab Company LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bom Dia Treats LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Irie Vibes | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rochester Home Care | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pauls Perfume Paradise | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park Salon LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The FIT Laboratory | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| F and G Beauty Supply | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Performance Athletix | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| NoshPosh LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fit Studio | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hair Beauty & Wellness | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Planting People Growing Justice LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Slice Pizza LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ovation Group | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Reinvestment Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Platinum Staffing Grouop Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Satisfied carpet cleaning | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| BKB Luxury Transportation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| LM Display | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Happypeople LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Koficore Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Recovery Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| DG Pilot LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Introspect Mental Health | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Group Balboa LLC dba Guacaya Bistreaux | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Porksuit Solutions LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trust Home Care LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| InControl LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Onyx Coffee House | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hire Up Staff LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fearless Commerce | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| RuvaAfricWear | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Joy Catering | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keyhubs LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hour Kids Walk-In Childcare | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| BW Limited Holdings dba Olu's Home | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Code White Teeth Whitening | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodbury Spanish Immersion Early Learning Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Me and I LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anytime Fitness | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shanghai Wholesale | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faithful Consulting LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Accord Medical Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fit LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 4 The Love LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Neoo Development | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Bakery Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| T Will Sports Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Privilage Cuts and Grooming | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Metropolitan Consortium of Community DevelopersMN14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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.
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About Metropolitan Economic Development Association
- How much does Metropolitan Economic Development Association give?
- Metropolitan Economic Development Association reported 3 grants totaling $1,129,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Metropolitan Economic Development Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (52%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Metropolitan Economic Development Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce ($1.0M), Intent Energy LLC ($89k), Minnesota Zoo ($61k).
- Does Metropolitan Economic Development Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Metropolitan Economic Development Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers.
- Where is Metropolitan Economic Development Association based?
- Metropolitan Economic Development Association is based in MN.
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