How much does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation give?

Minnesota Black Collective Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $343,500, out of $733,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Community Improvement (13%), Civil Rights (13%).

Who are Minnesota Black Collective Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Black Freedom Fund ($100k), Project Diva ($85k), Indigenous Roots ($80k).

Does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Black Collective Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is Minnesota Black Collective Foundation based?

Minnesota Black Collective Foundation is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Community foundation

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 FY2025(still arriving): 20
Itemized grants FY2025: 30
Organizations funded FY2024: 87%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $344k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 30 to 42; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $5.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 87% of the organizations Minnesota Black Collective Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	20	$344k	75%
FY2024	30	$727k	87%
FY2023	42	$925k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Black Freedom Fund	$100,000	1	n/a
Project Diva	$85,000	2	22%
Indigenous Roots	$80,000	3	3%
Propel Nonprofits	$70,000	2	1%
In Black Ink	$60,000	1	19%
Springboard for the Arts	$60,000	1	1%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$50,000	1	8%
Project Restore Minnesota	$50,000	1	n/a
Village Arms	$50,000	1	n/a
Northside Culture Incorporated	$50,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Minnesota Black Collective Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Black Freedom Fund	$100,000	1	n/a
Project Diva	$85,000	2	22%
Indigenous Roots	$80,000	3	3%
Propel Nonprofits	$70,000	2	1%
In Black Ink	$60,000	1	19%
Springboard for the Arts	$60,000	1	1%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$50,000	1	8%
Project Restore Minnesota	$50,000	1	n/a
Village Arms	$50,000	1	n/a
Northside Culture Incorporated	$50,000	1	n/a
Diverse Emerging Music Organization	$50,000	1	56%
Morning Glory Montessori	$50,000	1	18%
Network for the Development of Children of African Descent	$50,000	1	5%
Be Their Voices	$50,000	1	92%
Mahube-Otwa Community Action Partnership Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Black Storytellers Alliance	$50,000	1	n/a
Daryeel Youth Services	$50,000	1	n/a
New Roots Midwest	$50,000	1	n/a
Nonprofit for Black Girls	$50,000	1	n/a
Salem Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Cultural Wellness Center	$40,000	2	1%
Better Family Life Minnesota	$40,000	1	n/a
Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc	$35,392	1	0%
Left Lovers	$30,000	2	10%
African American Leadership Forum	$25,000	1	1%
Black Liberation Archiving and Conservation Center	$22,500	1	n/a
Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc	$20,000	1	7%
Connectup Institute	$20,000	1	n/a
African Economic Development Solutions	$20,000	2	0%
South Sudan Read	$20,000	1	35%
New Africa Community Development Corporation	$20,000	1	27%
The Rondo Community Land Trust	$20,000	1	0%
846sorg	$20,000	2	9%
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie	$17,000	2	4%
Immigrant Development Center	$11,000	1	1%
Selby Avenue Jazzfest	$10,000	1	11%
Sports Mentorship Academy	$10,000	1	6%
The Purpose	$10,000	1	n/a
Access Philanthropy Charities	$10,000	1	1%
Friends of Global Market Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Voicez Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
The Crwn LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Urban Youth Conservation	$10,000	1	6%
Aurora-St Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation	$10,000	1	3%
Youth Lens 360	$10,000	1	n/a
Until We Are All Free Movement	$10,000	1	2%
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless	$10,000	1	n/a
We Resolve	$10,000	1	11%
Voice of Culture	$10,000	1	n/a
Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization	$10,000	1	1%
We Win Institute Inc	$10,000	1	0%
SWOP Minneapolis	$10,000	1	6%
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Assoc	$10,000	1	2%
The Shift Cooperative	$10,000	1	89%
All Things Possible Theatrical and Arts Group Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Youth Initative	$10,000	1	n/a
Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence	$10,000	1	n/a
Rondo Center of Diverse Expression	$10,000	1	45%
Phumulani	$10,000	1	n/a
Black Garnet Books LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Win Back	$10,000	1	5%
World Youth Connect	$10,000	1	n/a
Joi Unlimited LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
African Career Education & Resources In	$10,000	1	1%
Ujamaa Place	$10,000	1	0%
Full Circle Theater Company	$10,000	1	4%
Barbershop & Social Services	$10,000	1	8%
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Deaf Muslim Community	$10,000	1	3%
Sammy's Avenue Eatery	$10,000	1	n/a
Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota	$10,000	1	1%
Somali American Farmers Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Bob Rewards Club	$10,000	1	n/a
United Negro College Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Higher Works Collaborative	$10,000	1	n/a
Al-Maa'uun	$10,000	1	0%
Light in the Well	$10,000	1	n/a
Soul to Soul Barbecue LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Voices for Racial Justice	$10,000	1	n/a
Homegrown Lacrosse	$10,000	1	0%
Affinity Healing Collective Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce	$10,000	1	2%
Congregations Caring for Creation	$10,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Minnesota Black Collective Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 50.

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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.

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

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 Black Collective Foundation

How much does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation give?: Minnesota Black Collective Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $343,500, out of $733,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Community Improvement (13%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Minnesota Black Collective Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Black Freedom Fund ($100k), Project Diva ($85k), Indigenous Roots ($80k).
Does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Black Collective Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Black Collective Foundation based?: Minnesota Black Collective Foundation is based in MN.