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Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc

Partner with rc&d councils in minnesota to strengthen the rc&d program; achieve natural resource conservation; and impact community and rural development.

$162k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
25%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$48,668
Largest grant, FY2019
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$153k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 25% of the organizations Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20194$162k25%
FY201824$1.2M42%
FY201716$512kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Environment$1.6MEducation$142kRecreation & Sports$92kEmployment$53kScience & Tech$25kAnimals$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Douglas County Department of Human Services$132,0032n/a
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc$127,330260%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$112,83220%
Giziibii Resource Conservation & Development Association$91,7782n/a
Minnesota Land Trust$72,36021%
Minnesota Dragonfly Society$69,5052n/a
Floodwood Services and Training Inc$53,41024%
Florida State University$23,1662n/a
Dovetail Partners Inc$10,06612%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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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How do I get to Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc?

Find your warmest path to Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc 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.

About Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc

How much does Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc give?
Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc reported 4 grants totaling $162,496 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Environment (83%), Education (7%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Douglas County Department of Human Services ($132k), University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc ($127k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($113k).
Does Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc based?
Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation & Development Inc 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 27 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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