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Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation

To benefit charitable, benevolent, and educational causes.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

63% of Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Kiva Microfunds, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$443kEducation$51kFood & Nutrition$29kCrime & Legal$24kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$8kEnvironment$6k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,483 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,483 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIVA MICROFUNDS$10,000
Act United$6,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACT UNITED: $8k → 5%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UPPER MIDWEST: $5k → 14%KIVA MICROFUNDS: $10k → 10%Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation: $10k → 12%Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids: $5k → 9%Act United: $6k → 5%DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $11k → 11%SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5k → 14%Act United: $6k → 5%Mississppi Park Connection: $6k → 14%Act United: $6k → 5%Junior Achievement North: $35k → 14%Act United: $6k → 5%Every Meal (Sheridan Story): $19k → 14%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
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.

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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
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Global Minnesota

Global minnesotas mission is to advance international understanding and engagement. we are committed to serving minnesota from a foundation built on the values of respect, collaboration, nonpartisanship, global competency, inclusion and…

International
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Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
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Rotary International

Rotary international provides service to others, promotes integrity, and advances world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

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Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
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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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Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
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Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
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Madison Rotary Foundation

The mission of the madison rotary foundation is to work with the rotary club of madison to support its charitable activities, serve as a responsible steward of its resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations.

Community Improvement
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International; the most unlike its peers is Act United. 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

12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD VISION INC: $414,850 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $40,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH+2 more: $18,136 · InternationalACT UNITED: $31,900 · Crime & LegalEVERY MEAL: $19,084 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 · Food & NutritionDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10,500 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $6,000 · EnvironmentROTARY INTERNATIONAL CEDAR RAPIDS: $5,152 · Other
International$472,986Crime & Legal$31,900Food & Nutrition$24,084Education$10,500Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$10,000Environment$6,000Other$5,152

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC: $414,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACT UNITED: $31,900 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $19,084 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $8,136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL CEDAR RAPIDS: $5,152 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    4report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Foundation 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $91k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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