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Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement

Mava advances the power of volunteerism to deepen community impact through uplifting community voice, building connections, providing education, and promoting advocacy.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Itemized grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
84%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$69,952
Organizations funded a year
3 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$292k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $483k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$1.1M45%
FY202319$526k84%
FY20223$50k33%
FY20213$41k100%
FY20193$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$704kYouth Development$586kHuman Services$192kPhilanthropy$119kHousing & Shelter$56kEmployment$25kFood & Nutrition$10kCivil Rights$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Queerspace Collective$105,78626%
Reading Partners$105,05320%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn$94,36624%
Treehouse Inc$93,35522%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$90,66720%
Kids-N-Kinship Inc$87,661220%
Duluth Community School Collaborative$86,61325%
Bolder Options$83,44923%
Recreational Experiences Achieving Community Harmony Inc$75,929214%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc$75,86820%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Queerspace Collective$105,78626%
Reading Partners$105,05320%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn$94,36624%
Treehouse Inc$93,35522%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North$90,66720%
Kids-N-Kinship Inc$87,661220%
Duluth Community School Collaborative$86,61325%
Bolder Options$83,44923%
Recreational Experiences Achieving Community Harmony Inc$75,929214%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc$75,86820%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities$75,21621%
Mentor North$74,68029%
Darts$71,69122%
Minnesota Academy of Science$71,14328%
Minnesota STEM Partnership$54,235212%
United Way of Steele County$44,40931%
United Way of Bemidji Area$43,73832%
Goodhue County Habitat for Humanity Inc$40,00014%
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota$38,27326%
United Way of 1000 Lakes$31,25024%
Riseup Partnership$28,17613%
Fe y Justicia$25,00014%
United Way of Central Minnesota$24,00011%
Cornerstone$20,64014%
My Neighbor to Love Coalition$16,00011%
Mankato Youth Place Inc$15,75011%
Rice County Area United Way$15,00014%
Head of the Lakes United Way$15,00011%
United Way of Ne Minnesota$15,00011%
Community Thread$13,50011%
Kinship of the Perham Area$8,195134%
Friends for a Non-Violent World Inc$5,0001n/a
Frogtown Garden$5,00012%
Dream of Wild Health$5,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQueerspace Collective: $105,786 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetReading Partners: $105,053 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn: $94,366 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTreehouse Inc: $93,355 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the North: $90,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKids-N-Kinship Inc: $87,661 over 2y, 20% of budgetDuluth Community School Collaborative: $86,613 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBolder Options: $83,449 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRecreational Experiences Achieving Community Harmony Inc: $75,929 over 2y, 14% of budgetCommunidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc: $75,868 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: $75,216 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMentor North: $74,680 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetDarts: $71,691 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMinnesota Academy of Science: $71,143 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMinnesota STEM Partnership: $54,235 over 2y, 12% of budgetUnited Way of Steele County: $44,409 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUnited Way of Bemidji Area: $43,738 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGoodhue County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMentoring Partnership of Minnesota: $38,273 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetUnited Way of 1000 Lakes: $31,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetRiseup Partnership: $28,176 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFe y Justicia: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUnited Way of Central Minnesota: $24,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCornerstone: $20,640 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMy Neighbor to Love Coalition: $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMankato Youth Place Inc: $15,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRice County Area United Way: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHead of the Lakes United Way: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Ne Minnesota: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Thread: $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKinship of the Perham Area: $8,195 over 1y, 34% of budgetFrogtown Garden: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Mardag FoundationXcel Energy FoundationYouthpriseThe Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Greater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Minnesota Community F…Northland Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN40.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Youthprise · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Northland 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.

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About Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement

How much does Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement give?
Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,065,496, out of $1,133,884 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Youth Development (35%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Queerspace Collective ($106k), Reading Partners ($105k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn ($94k).
Does Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mardag Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement based?
Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement is based in MN.

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 36 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home