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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $343,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $733,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $389,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Connectup Institute$20,000
Propel Nonprofits$20,000
Left Lovers$20,000
New Africa Community Development Corporation$20,000
Immigrant Development Center$11,000
Full Circle Theater Company$10,000
Light in the Well$10,000
846sorg$10,000
Aurora St Anthony Neighborhood Development Corp$10,000
Black Garnet Books LLC$10,000
Minnesota Deaf Muslim Community$10,000
Voice of Culture$10,000
SWOP Minneapolis$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MN Coalition for the Homeless: $10k → 14%Until We Are All Free Movement: $10k → 11%Ujamaa Place: $10k → 14%Al-Maa'uun: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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.

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

  • IB
    IN BLACK INK
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -33%
  • SF
    SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -29%
  • MP
    MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mahube-Otwa Community Action Partnership Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
24/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLAGE ARMS: $50,000 · OtherVILLAGE ARMSNORTHSIDE CULTURE INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE CULTURE INCORPORATEDMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 · OtherMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP IN…NEW ROOTS MIDWEST: $50,000 · OtherNEW ROOTS MIDWESTNONPROFIT FOR BLACK GIRLS: $50,000 · OtherNONPROFIT FOR BLACK GIRLSPROPEL 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 RootsIN BLACK INK: $60,000 · Arts & CultureIN BLACK INKSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE AR…MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PRISON WRITI…DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC…Black Storytellers Alliance: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Storytellers All…+5 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 morePROJECT DIVA: $85,000 · EducationPROJECT DIVAMorning Glory Montessori: $50,000 · EducationMorning Glory Mon…Network for the Development of Children of African Descent: $50,000 · EducationNetwork for the D…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 ImprovementFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Area Neighborhood Development Organization: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBOB REWARDS CLUB: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT RESTORE MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentDaryeel Youth Services: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN YOUTH CONSERVATION: $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 ServicesUNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesAl-Maa'uun: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetIN BLACK INK: $60,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetDIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION: $50,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetMorning Glory Montessori: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNetwork for the Development of Children of African Descent: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBE THEIR VOICES: $50,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetMAHUBE-OTWA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalem Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetNetwork for Developing Conscious Communities Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH SUDAN READ: $20,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNEW AFRICA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget846sorg: $20,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetSWEET POTATO COMFORT PIE: $17,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetIMMIGRANT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSELBY AVENUE JAZZFEST: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSPORTS MENTORSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF GLOBAL MARKET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN YOUTH CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAURORA-ST ANTHONY NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWe Resolve: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCentral Area Neighborhood Development Organization: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSWOP Minneapolis: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS ARTS ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SHIFT COOPERATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetRONDO CENTER OF DIVERSE EXPRESSION: $10,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetWin Back: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFULL CIRCLE THEATER COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBARBERSHOP & SOCIAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% 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 budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAl-Maa'uun: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 & 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minnesota Black Collective Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Black Collective Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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