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Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$439kCivil Rights$29kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$16kEmployment$15kHealth$10kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $90,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $110,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,333 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.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Defense Fund - Minnesota$40,000
Navigate MN dba Unidos MN Education Fund$30,000
Home Line$10,000
Prepare Prosper$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 (FY19–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Pillsbury United Communities: $9k → 9%Prepare Prosper: $14k → 14%Prepare Prosper: $10k → 14%Prepare Prosper: $10k → 14%The ANIKA Foundation: $25k → 11%SEWA: $25k → 11%Amherst H Wilder Foundation: $32k → 14%Amherst H Wilder Foundation: $25k → 14%Wilder Foundation: $25k → 14%Access Press: $6k → 14%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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$199k · 4 repeat orgs$339k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
22

Total granted

$199k
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEmploymentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $82k · revenue +28%
  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    2× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +39%
  • PA
    Prepare and Prosper
    3× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AC
    AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES INgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +51%
  • S
    SEWA-AIFWgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +92%
  • HA
    HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +23%

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
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
2
African Development Center

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

Human Services
3
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance

ACT: Align Partners, Connect Businesses to Resources and Transform Native Economies.

Community Improvement
4
Minnesota African Womens Association

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming

Human Services
5
Minneapolis American Indian Center

Services provided include education, community development, youth programs, employment assistance, information dissemination, health and wellness programs, elder services, and child welfare.

Human Services
6
Division of Indian Work

Division of indian work's mission is to support and strengthen urban american indian people through culturally-based education, traditional healing approaches, and leadership development. we achieve this by focusing on community and…

Human Services
7
Center for Economic Inclusion

The Center for Economic Inclusion is an organization committed to strengthening the Minneapolis - Saint Paul region's civic infrastructure and collective capacity to disrupt systems and influence market forces to catalyze shared prosperity…

Community Improvement
8
Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education
9
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
10
African Economic Development Solutions

African economic development solutions (aeds) builds wealth within african immigrant communities in the twin cities through economic development activities. we work throughout the twin cities metropolitan area to create wealth, lift…

Education
11
West Central Initiative

Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.

Philanthropy
12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Wellness Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr13%40%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%1/28
the rest of the field
14%
1,917/13,492

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

28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $81,500 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATIONPrepare and Prosper — $33,825 · Human ServicesPrepare and ProsperSEWA-AIFW — $25,000 · Human ServicesSEWA-AIFWTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ANIKA FOUNDATIONINTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA — $9,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $48,825 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUN…COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $35,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-IS…COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $25,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND C…PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $25,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COM…AMERICAN INDIAN OIC — $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN OICNORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC — $10,000 · OtherNORTHWEST INDIAN COM…LATINOLEAD INC — $10,000 · OtherLATINOLEAD INCTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE ARC MINNESOTA IN…Partnership Resources Inc — $5,500 · OtherPartnership Resource…MEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING — $10,000 · OtherMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIK…PROJECT FINE — $7,500 · OtherPROJECT FINECENTER FOR HMONG ARTS AND TALENT — $6,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HMONG ART…UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 · EducationUNIDOS MINN…AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $25,500 · EducationAFRICAN CAR…HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 · EmploymentHMONG AME…VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $9,192 · EmploymentVOICES FO…RISE INCORPORATED — $6,000 · EmploymentRISE INCO…HIRED — $5,500 · EmploymentHIREDWELLNESS CENTER — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $5,500 · Housing & ShelterCAPI USA — $23,500 · International
Human Services$179,825Civil Rights$108,825Other$99,000Education$55,500Employment$45,692Housing & Shelter$25,500International$23,500

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $81,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $48,825 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $35,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetPrepare and Prosper — $33,825 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $25,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSEWA-AIFW — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCAPI USA — $23,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLNESS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOME LINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $9,192 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCULTURAL MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT FINE — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HMONG ARTS AND TALENT — $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRISE INCORPORATED — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS PRESS LTD — $5,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPartnership Resources Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIRED — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Otto Bremer TrustThe McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Target FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Women's Foundation of…BCBSM Foundation IncFr Bigelow FoundationMinnesota VoiceNorthwest Area Founda…John and Denise Grave…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN41.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Voice · Northwest Area Foundation · John and Denise Graves 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 Council of Nonprofits Inc 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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