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Minnesota Black Collective Foundation

Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.

$733k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.

Arts & Culture$433kCommunity Improvement$271kCivil Rights$262kEducation$245kYouth Development$180kHealth$165kHuman Services$130kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $343,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $733,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $389,500 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Black Freedom Fund$100,000
Black Liberation Archiving and Conservation Center$22,500
Propel Nonprofits$20,000
Connectup Institute$20,000
Left Lovers$20,000
New Africa Community Development Corporation$20,000
Immigrant Development Center$11,000
Voices for Racial Justice$10,000
Full Circle Theater Company$10,000
Friends of the Global Market$10,000
Light in the Well$10,000
MN Coalition for the Homeless$10,000
846sorg$10,000
Black Garnet Books LLC$10,000
Minnesota Deaf Muslim Community$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MN Coalition for the Homeless: $10k → 14%Ujamaa Place: $10k → 14%Until We Are All Free Movement: $10k → 11%Al-Maa'uun: $10k → 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$362k · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
60

Total granted

$362k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $274k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PD
    PROJECT DIVA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +9%
  • IR
    Indigenous Roots
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +52%
  • PN
    PROPEL NONPROFITS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • SF
    SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -29%
  • IB
    IN BLACK INK
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -33%
  • BT
    BE THEIR VOICES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7% · 92% of their budget

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
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
2
Lights On

Promote civic engagement by the African American community in Minneapolis, MN and surrounding communities. The goal of Lights On is to create a sense of agency within the community by educating members about the institutions that affect…

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3
Minnesota African Women Coalition

Our mission is to cultivate, foster and implement sustainable and long-lasting change through Economic Development, Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Job Training & Career Development, Mental Health initiatives, Memory Loss and…

Health
4
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
5
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation

Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.

Philanthropy
6
Field of Dreams Empowerment Center

Bipoc small business capacity building

Human Services
7
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
8
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

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9
Metropolitan Economic Development Association

Helping minority entrepreneurs succeed.

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10
Webber-Camden Neighborhood Organization

Community development and engagement

Community Improvement
11
Minnesota Cdfi Coalition

The mission of the Minnesota CDFI Coalition is to activate the collective superpowers of Minnesota CDFIs to achieve economic justice.

Community Improvement
12
Ayada Leads

Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mahube-Otwa Community Action Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bob Rewards Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Disability Services Organiz…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Movement Building & CapacityAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports LeaguesNeighborhood AssociationsYouth and Family Support Se…Family Philanthropic Founda…Community Arts & Theater Or…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%24%<5yr13%33%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr13%1%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%25%<5yr13%35%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 24% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%3/84
the rest of the field
14%
1,902/13,181

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

64 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. 64 of the 84 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
26/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHSIDE CULTURE INCORPORATED — $50,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE CULTURE INCORPORATEDNONPROFIT FOR BLACK GIRLS — $50,000 · OtherNONPROFIT FOR BLACK GIRLSMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 · OtherMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP IN…NEW ROOTS MIDWEST — $50,000 · OtherNEW ROOTS MIDWESTVILLAGE ARMS — $50,000 · OtherVILLAGE ARMSPROPEL NONPROFITS — $70,000 · OtherPROPEL NONPROFITSBE THEIR VOICES — $50,000 · OtherBE THEIR VOICESCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $40,000 · OtherLEFT LOVERS — $30,000 · Other+30 more — $339,500 · Other+30 moreIndigenous Roots — $80,000 · Arts & CultureIndigenous RootsSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE AR…IN BLACK INK — $60,000 · Arts & CultureIN BLACK INKDIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC…Black Storytellers Alliance — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Storytellers All…MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PRISON WRITI…+5 more — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 morePROJECT DIVA — $85,000 · EducationPROJECT DIVANetwork for the Development of Children of African Descent — $50,000 · EducationNetwork for the D…Morning Glory Montessori — $50,000 · EducationMorning Glory Mon…Better Family Life Minnesota — $40,000 · EducationBetter Family Lif…AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $25,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN …AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $20,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC …+4 more — $40,000 · Education+4 moreBlack Freedom Fund — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBlack Freed…FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $35,392 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPON…CONNECTUP INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCONNECTUP I…IMMIGRANT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $11,000 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES — $10,000 · Community ImprovementBOB REWARDS CLUB — $10,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Area Neighborhood Development Organization — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT RESTORE MINNESOTA — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDaryeel Youth Services — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH CONSERVATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWin Back — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWorld Youth Connect — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSalem Inc — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNetwork for Developing Conscious Communities Inc — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW AFRICA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTIDES CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesAl-Maa'uun — $10,000 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACE — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT — $10,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$779,500Arts & Culture$400,000Education$310,000Community Improvement$216,392Youth Development$140,000Housing & Shelter$110,000Human Services$90,000

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 budgetPROJECT DIVA — $85,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetIndigenous Roots — $80,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIN BLACK INK — $60,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBE THEIR VOICES — $50,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetDIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION — $50,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetSalem Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNetwork for the Development of Children of African Descent — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMorning Glory Montessori — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP — $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC — $35,392 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEFT LOVERS — $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH SUDAN READ — $20,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork for Developing Conscious Communities Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNEW AFRICA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budget846sorg — $20,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET POTATO COMFORT PIE — $17,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetIMMIGRANT DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAl-Maa'uun — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFULL CIRCLE THEATER COMPANY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSWOP Minneapolis — $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMinnesota Deaf Muslim Community — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSELBY AVENUE JAZZFEST — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWe Resolve — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRONDO CENTER OF DIVERSE EXPRESSION — $10,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOMEGROWN LACROSSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN YOUTH CONSERVATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS ARTS ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWin Back — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SHIFT COOPERATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetCONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Headwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Fr Bigelow FoundationPropel NonprofitsPohlad Family Foundat…YouthpriseOtto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…Target FoundationNorthwest Area Founda…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN56.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Pohlad Family Foundation · Youthprise · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · Northwest Area 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 Black Collective Foundation 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minnesota Black Collective Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Black Collective 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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