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Minnesota 4-H Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Minnesota 4-H Foundation

The Minnesota 4-H Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, was created in 1981 to generate private funds from individuals, corporations and foundations to assist the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development in creating and delivering the finest youth development programs in Minnesota.

$347k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$162k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Food & Nutrition$562kYouth Development$185kArts & Culture$21k
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $301,310, the rows itemized in this filing. The $346,839 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,529 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $221k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of MN Extension Center$161,787
Stevens County 4-H Leader's Council$58,850
Minnesota State Fair$20,540
Big Stone County 4-H Federation$14,700
West Otter Tail County Leader Council$12,000
Anoka County 4-H Federation$9,060
East Otter Tail County 4-H Federation$7,500
Dakota County 4-H Federation$6,634
McLeod County 4-H Federation$5,133
Clay County 4-H Federation$5,106
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Wright Co 4-H Leaders Council: $10k → 5%Washington Co 4-H Federation: $7k → 6%Dakota County 4-H Federation: $7k → 6%McLeod County 4-H Federation: $5k → 7%Anoka County 4-H Federation: $9k → 7%East Otter Tail County 4-H Federation: $8k → 9%SWIFT COUNTY 4-H LEADERS COUNCIL: $6k → 10%Stevens County 4-H Leader's Council: $59k → 11%Big Stone County 4-H Federation: $15k → 11%Martin County 4-H Federation: $19k → 11%University of Minnesota Extension Center: $400k → 14%Dakota County 4-H Federation: $6k → 6%West Otter Tail County Leader Council: $12k → 9%University of MN Extension Center: $162k → 14%Minnesota State Fair: $21k → 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 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
Lac qui Parle County 4-H Leaders Council Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
2
Mower County 4-H Leaders Council Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
3
Steele County 4-H Club Council Mn

4-H Mission: To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
4
Winona County 4-H Federation Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
5
Isanti County 4-H Council Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
6
Grant County 4-H Federation

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
7
Morrison County 4-H Federation Mn

4-H Mission: To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
8
Lyon County 4-H Federation Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
9
Murray County 4-H Federation Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
10
Beltrami County 4-H Council Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
11
Brown County 4-H Federation Mn

To engage youth, in partnership with adults, in quality learning opportunities that enable them to shape and reach their full potential as active citizens in a global community.

Youth Development
12
Todd County 4-H Leaders Council Mn

4-H Auctions:Proceeds from the Auction go to the winning 4-H youth with a portion of the funds designated to further Minnesota 4-H programs.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is McLeod County 4-H Federation Mn; the most unlike its peers is West Otter Tail County 4-H Leaders Council Mn. 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 15 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $562,040 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAMINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $20,540 · OtherStevens County 4-H Leaders Council MN: $58,850 · Youth DevelopmentStevens County 4-H Leaders …Martin County 4-H Federation MN: $19,228 · Youth DevelopmentMartin County 4-H Federatio…Scott County 4-H Leaders Council MN: $18,358 · Youth DevelopmentScott County 4-H Leaders Co…Big Stone County 4-H Federation MN: $14,700 · Youth DevelopmentBig Stone County 4-H Federa…Dakota County 4-H Federation MN: $12,577 · Youth DevelopmentDakota County 4-H Federatio…West Otter Tail County 4-H Leaders Council MN: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentWest Otter Tail County 4-H …Wright County 4-H Federation MN: $10,120 · Youth DevelopmentWright County 4-H Federatio…Anoka County 4-H Leaders Council MN: $9,060 · Youth DevelopmentEast Otter Tail County 4-H Federation MN: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentWashington County 4-H Federation MN: $6,925 · Youth Development+3 more: $16,119 · Youth Development+3 more
Other$582,580Youth Development$185,437

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 Minnesota 4-H Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota 4-H Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minnesota 4-H Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota 4-H 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 15 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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