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Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$182kHousing & Shelter$35kHealth$30kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$12kEducation$8kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$45,163
NEW PATHWAYS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$11,250
BANZAI$7,617
THE BRAVE FOUNDATION$1,500
BRAHAM FOOD SHELF$1,000
KINSHIP YOUTH MENTORING$1,000
HOPE4YOUTH$1,000
CAMBRIDGE SURPLUS FOOD$1,000
LAKES CENTER FOR YOUTH$1,000
EAST CENTRAL MN HABITAT$1,000
PRINCETON PANTRY$1,000
ISANTI COUNTY BEYOND TH$1,000
FOOD FOR FRIENDS$1,000
BILLS WISH$750
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 (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ANOKA COMMUNITY MISSION: $500 → 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $2k → 5%ANOKA COMMUNITY MISSION: $500 → 7%NEW PATHWAYS: $25k → 7%NACE: $500 → 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $3k → 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $2k → 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $389 → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS B DOG: $300 → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $194 → 5%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $500 → 7%NEW PATHWAYS: $500 → 7%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 11 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
58

Total granted

$232k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+25%

Still filing today

55%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentAnimalsInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NP
    New Pathways Inc
    2× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +483%
  • FP
    Family Pathways
    5× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +35%
  • H4
    HOPE 4 Youth
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +25%
  • CK
    CRTUN KID CHID MIR NTWK
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
Lonsdale Area Food Shelf Inc

Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .

Food & Nutrition
2
North Scott Food Pantry

The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.

Food & Nutrition
3
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
4
Bread of Refuge Inc

Bread of Refuge is a food pantry that distributes over 1600 banana boxes of food every month to families in need. We also feed 75-to-100 homeless people every week.

Human Services
5
Feeding Furry Friends

Our mission is to bring in donated pet food and pet supplies and hand them out to other nonprofits including: animal rescues, animal sanctuaries, other animal efforts, and food shelves. We take in donations from all over the USA and unload…

Animals
6
A Touch of the Father's Love Inc

The mission of a touch of the fathers love food pantry and ministry is to: ~alleviate food insecurity in the twin counties area through the distribution of healthy and nutritious food while instilling hope. ~treat all staff, partner…

Human Services
7
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition
9
The Humanity Alliance

The Humanity Alliance is a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that aspires to create long-lasting community value. Our initial focus is on providing improved access to nutrition for those who are food insecure... restoring love and…

Community Improvement
10
Tc Food Justice

Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…

Food & Nutrition
11
Wabasha Area Food Share Inc

Community Food Shelf offering free food to low income area residents

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12
3G Food Pantry

Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Princeton Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $158,674 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBANZAI INC: $31,548 · OtherBANZAI INCCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $26,380 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKCRTUN KID CHID MIR NTWK: $24,383 · OtherCRTUN KID CHID MIR NTWKIndividual grant recipient: $11,250 · Other+67 more: $57,244 · Other+67 moreNew Pathways Inc: $25,500 · Human ServicesNew Pathway…Family Pathways: $6,883 · Human ServicesFamily Path…+3 more: $2,000 · Human Services+3 moreHOPE 4 Youth: $3,199 · Youth DevelopmentThe Wave Youth Center LLC: $250 · Youth DevelopmentPassing The Bread: $1,250 · Food & NutritionWHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF: $500 · Food & NutritionINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Community ImprovementINTERRNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS: $275 · Community ImprovementRUFF START RESCUE INC: $750 · AnimalsFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $475 · International
Other$309,479Human Services$34,383Youth Development$3,449Food & Nutrition$1,750Community Improvement$1,275Animals$750International$475

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $26,380 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Pathways Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFamily Pathways: $6,883 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $3,199 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPassing The Bread: $1,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANOKA COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMORA FOOD PANTRY: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUFF START RESCUE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH ANOKA COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $475 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways Inc ↗
  • Who funds Family Pathways ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
  • Who funds Passing The Bread ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds ANOKA COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗

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.

Connexus Energy FoundationMN26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connexus Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Allina Health System · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation

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 Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Minnco Credit Union Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 85 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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