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Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District

Enhancing the vitality of downtown minneapolis by making an area of approximately 120 square blocks (the "district") cleaner, greener, safer, and vibrant.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$1.4MCommunity Improvement$130kArts & Culture$124kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$31kEmployment$25kReligion$20kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $135,331, the rows itemized in this filing. The $141,771 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,440 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 · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $116k
$13,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN$116,096
MARKETING MINNEAPOLIS LLC$13,200
MINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL$6,035
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 (FY19–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $10k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $11k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+5%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • VS
    VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $782k · revenue +94% · 27% of their budget
  • CO
    CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $640k
  • HT
    HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $69k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR A LORING PARK COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • SA
    SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -38%
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
Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors Foundation Inc
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2
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Lake Street Council

Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…

Community Improvement
5
Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District

Enhancing the vitality of downtown minneapolis by making an area of approximately 120 square blocks (the "district") cleaner, greener, safer, and vibrant.

Community Improvement
6
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
7
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
8
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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9
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
10
Minneapolis Parks Foundation

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation transforms human lives through parks and public spaces by aligning philanthropic investment and community vision.

Recreation & Sports
11
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Streets; the most unlike its peers is At Home Group. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS: $640,008 · OtherCITY OF MINNEAPOLISMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL: $52,415 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCILSALVATION ARMY: $45,120 · OtherNORTHERN LIGHTSMN INC: $45,000 · Other+7 more: $89,000 · Other+7 moreVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN: $782,118 · Crime & LegalVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWNHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $69,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,046 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $25,000 · EducationCITIZENS FOR A LORING PARK COMMUNITY: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNorth Loop Neighborhood Association: $6,000 · Community ImprovementYOUTHLINK: $10,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesOUR STREETS: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$871,543Crime & Legal$782,118Arts & Culture$69,000Education$50,046Community Improvement$31,000Human Services$20,500Recreation & Sports$15,000

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 budgetVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN: $782,118 over 8y, 27% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $69,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN COUNCIL: $52,415 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTSMN INC: $45,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,046 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR STREETS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN CITIES ACCORD: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Loop Neighborhood Association: $6,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAT HOME GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 20 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.

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