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· Public charity
MINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
To bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity & long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
$266k
Granted FY2024
13
Grants
1
Communities
$52k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of MINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
energy efficiencycommercebusinesssurroundingben
2020
energy waste
2021
energy waste
2022
energy waste
2023
energy waste
2024
energy waste
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$880k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HIGHLAND COLLISION CENTER$51,913
- HD COIN LAUNDRY$11,025
- GASSEN COMPANY$10,927
- BECKER CO FOOD PANTRY$10,000
- FANETA DEVELOPMENT LLC$9,384
- UNI-SYSTEMS LLC$8,003
- EDGE ASSOCIATES$8,000
- SAGAL MANAGEMENT$8,000
- MILLERBERND MANUFACTURING$8,000
- SPRINGFIELD AREA FOOD SHELF$7,093
- HMONG VILLAGE INC$7,000
- ARTISTIC FINISHES$6,759
- SOURCE MN$5,817
02The need
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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 (FY21–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
$213k · 8 repeat orgs$973k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
61
Total granted
$213k
$828k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+39%
Still filing today
13%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- PLPREMIER LIGHTING2× · 2021–2022 · $60k
- LULIGHTEN UP LLC2× · 2021–2022 · $44k
- AIARIEL INC2× · 2019–2021 · $32k
Funded once
- OAO'LEARY AUTO BODY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ECELITE CLEANERSone grant, 2023 · $43k
- MPMINNEAPOLIS PROPCO LLCone grant, 2023 · $34k
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.
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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and
Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper
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2
Park Rapids Lakes Area Chamber
The chamber engages its members in the pursuit of excellence and economic growth by fostering an innovative business environment and world-class community.
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3
Alex Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce
Promote commerce & industry in alexandria, mn.
Community Improvement
4
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce
Promote business and community development in the dickinson, nd, area.
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5
Greater North Dakota Chamber
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a posititve business climate.
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6
Twin Cities North Chamber of Commerce
The resource to promote business, develop leaders, and connect communities.
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7
African Development Center
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Human Services
8
Lake Street Council
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…
Community Improvement
9
Minneapolis Downtown Council
To promote the growth and development of the downtown area and its businesses.
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10
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
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11
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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12
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Rs Eden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,051,237Human Services$38,410Arts & Culture$28,215Crime & Legal$24,521Food & Nutrition$17,093Health$13,540Religion$13,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Greater Twin Cities United WayMN15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation MINNESOTA CHAMBER 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SPRINGFIELD AREA FOOD SHELF.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +77% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 472905876 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SPRINGFIELD AREA FOOD SHELF, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Minnesota Chamber Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Minnesota Chamber Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
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