Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Public charity

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 FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$329kHuman Services$311kYouth Development$283kPhilanthropy$149kEmployment$114kCivil Rights$106kHealth$93kHousing & Shelter$16kInternational$5kOther$290k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $1,065,496 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,133,884 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,388 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $583k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $475k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$292k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE$69,952
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS SOUTHERN MN$66,901
KIDS 'N KINSHIP$62,573
READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES$62,427
DULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE$55,578
YMCA OF THE NORTH$53,530
TREEHOUSE$53,112
BOULDER OPTIONS$50,597
CLUES ST PAUL$48,440
REACH INC$44,834
BIG BROTHER SISTERS TWIN CITIES$43,382
MENTOR NORTH$42,817
DARTS$41,859
MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$40,679
GOODHUE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$40,000
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 (FY21–24, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY THREAD: $14k → 6%DARTS: $42k → 6%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS SOUTHERN MN: $67k → 9%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $54k → 11%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE: $16k → 15%DARTS: $30k → 6%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS SOUTHERN MN: $27k → 9%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $37k → 11%FE Y JUSTICIA: $25k → 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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+52%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentCivil RightsOther

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

  • QC
    QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $106k · revenue +47%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $94k · revenue +19%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $91k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CT
    COMMUNITY THREAD
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -7%
  • DO
    Dream of Wild Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +476%
  • FF
    FRIENDS FOR A NON-VIOLENT WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +52%

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
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
2
Social Venture Partners Minnesota

SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a…

Philanthropy
3
World Youth Connect

World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…

Youth Development
4
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
5
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…

—
6
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
7
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
8
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

—
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
Nexus Community Partners

Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.

Philanthropy
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
Communities in Schools of the Twin Cities

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Frogtown Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%18%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%18%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
12%
2,492/20,100

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

READING PARTNERS — $105,053 · EducationREADING PARTNERSDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $86,613 · EducationDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHO…Bolder Options — $83,449 · EducationBolder OptionsMinnesota STEM Partnership — $54,235 · EducationMinnesota STEM Partne…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN MN — $94,366 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SIS…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $90,667 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN…DARTS — $71,691 · Human ServicesDARTSFE Y JUSTICIA — $25,000 · Human ServicesFE Y JUSTICIAMANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC — $15,750 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY THREAD — $13,500 · Human ServicesKIDS-N-KINSHIP INC — $87,661 · OtherKIDS-N-KINSHIP INCMinnesota Academy of Science — $71,143 · OtherMinnesota Academy of Scienc…GOODHUE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 · OtherGOODHUE COUNTY HABITAT FOR …UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $24,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNE…CITY OF ST CLOUD — $22,200 · OtherCITY OF ST CLOUDIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA — $15,000 · OtherTREEHOUSE INC — $93,355 · OtherTREEHOUSE INCMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION — $16,000 · Other+3 more — $15,000 · OtherRECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC — $75,929 · Youth DevelopmentRECREATIONAL EXPER…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $75,216 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG S…MENTOR NORTH — $74,680 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NORTHRISEUP PARTNERSHIP — $28,176 · Youth DevelopmentRISEUP PARTNERSHIPCORNERSTONE — $20,640 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERSTONE+1 more — $8,195 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY — $44,409 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF BEMIDJI AREA — $43,738 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES — $31,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…RICE COUNTY AREA UNITED WAY — $15,000 · PhilanthropyRICE COUN…HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $15,000 · PhilanthropyHEAD OF T…COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC — $75,868 · EmploymentMENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF MINNESOTA — $38,273 · EmploymentQUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE — $105,786 · Civil Rights
Education$329,350Human Services$310,974Other$404,359Youth Development$282,836Philanthropy$149,397Employment$114,141Civil Rights$105,786

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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
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.

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

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 Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 36 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines