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Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$241kPhilanthropy$181kHousing & Shelter$108kCommunity Improvement$60kReligion$37kHealth$31kCrime & Legal$15kEmployment$7kEducation$5kOther$221k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Agate Housing & Services Inc$15,000
The Link$15,000
Jeremiah Program$15,000
The Bridge for Youth$7,500
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative$7,500
Open Your Heart to the Hungry & Homeless$7,500
Oasis for Youth$7,500
PRISM$7,500
The Family Partnership$7,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $241k) 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.

area typical 7%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $8k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $5k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $4k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $4k → 11%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $2k → 11%Senior Community Services: $3k → 11%Western Communities Action Network: $500 → 11%The Link: $15k → 11%The Link: $15k → 11%The Link: $9k → 11%The Bridge For Youth: $9k → 11%The Bridge for Youth: $8k → 11%The Bridge for Youth: $8k → 11%The Link: $5k → 11%The Bridge for Youth: $5k → 11%The Link: $5k → 11%The Bridge For Youth: $5k → 11%The Link: $4k → 11%The Bridge For Youth: $2k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $8k → 11%Avivo: $8k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $5k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $4k → 11%Avivo: $4k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $4k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $3k → 11%PRISM - People Responding in Social Ministry: $8k → 11%PRISM: $8k → 11%PRISM: $5k → 11%PRISM: $5k → 11%PRISM: $4k → 11%The Anika Foundation: $35k → 11%The Family Partnership: $8k → 11%The Family Partnership: $8k → 11%Cornerstone Advocacy Services: $8k → 11%Cornerstone Advocacy Services: $4k → 11%Youthlink: $3k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc’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 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$489k · 23 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
18

Total granted

$489k
$373k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+43%

Still filing today

87%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +161%
  • TL
    THE LINK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +124%
  • AH
    AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • GT
    GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $146k · revenue -26%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $68k
  • LC
    Longfellow Community Council
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -39%

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
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
2
Minnesota Housing Partnership

Minnesota housing partnership (mhp) expands housing and community development opportunity by leading collaborative work to promote systems change and grow develoopment capacity.

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3
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…

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4
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
5
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
6
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless

To ensure every minnesotan has a safe, decent, and affordable place to call home. we engage in community education activities, public policy advocacy, and providing technical assistance to service providers across the state.

Human Services
7
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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8
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
9
Partners for Affordable Housing

Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…

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10
Matrix Housing Services

The mission of matrix housing services is to deliver high-quality programs and well rounded services for people experiencing homelessness.

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11
Housinglink

Connecting people to affordable rental homes, increasing choice and access for all.

Housing & Shelter
12
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans and the most unlike its peers is The Anika Foundation. 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 backsteadyUnion Health & Welfare FundsSomali Muslim Community Cen…Family Philanthropic Founda…Christian Spiritual Formati…Youth & Community Support S…Immigrant and Indigenous Co…Senior Housing & Care Servi…Labor Union Locals
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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%64%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
16%
1,429/9,122

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.

05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LINK — $52,500 · Human ServicesTHE LINKTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $36,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTHTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $35,227 · Human ServicesTHE ANIKA FOUNDATIONPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $28,500 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MI…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $22,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NUR…PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING IN…The Family Partnership — $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PartnershipCornerstone Advocacy Service — $11,000 · Human ServicesAVIVO — $11,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient — $68,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBATC FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherBATC FOUNDATIONTubman Family Alliance — $22,500 · OtherTubman Family AllianceTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES — $20,500 · OtherTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIESOASIS FOR YOUTH — $16,500 · OtherOASIS FOR YOUTHCornerstone Advocacy Services — $13,500 · OtherCornerstone Advocacy ServicesCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $11,976 · OtherSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $9,000 · OtherDAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherDAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER IN…+8 more — $46,000 · Other+8 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $145,940 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UN…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $35,226 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDA…JEREMIAH PROGRAM — $54,500 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROG…HEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $18,500 · Housing & ShelterHEARTS AND HA…ALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIANCE HOUS…Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $8,500 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding To…CITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $8,250 · Housing & ShelterCITY OF LAKES…GREATER METROPOLITAN HOUSING CORPORATION — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterLongfellow Community Council — $35,227 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $24,500 · Community ImprovementAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $36,500 · ReligionANGEL FOUNDATION — $23,500 · HealthTUBMAN — $7,500 · Health
Human Services$240,727Other$247,976Philanthropy$181,166Housing & Shelter$107,750Community Improvement$59,727Religion$36,500Health$31,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $145,940 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $54,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINK — $52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $36,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $36,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLongfellow Community Council — $35,227 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $35,227 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $35,226 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $28,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBATC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $24,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $23,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES — $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $18,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH — $16,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDAMASCUS WAY RE-ENTRY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $11,976 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Advocacy Service — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVIVO — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $8,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $8,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTUBMAN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER METROPOLITAN HOUSING CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAEON — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Pohlad Family Foundat…Edina Realty Foundati…Target FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Constellation Fund
The Minneapolis FoundationMN37.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Target Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Constellation Fund

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 Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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