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Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$550k
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 FY2021–2024.

Human Services$2.5MCommunity Improvement$2.4MHousing & Shelter$897kPublic Benefit$784kEducation$284kHealth$249kArts & Culture$208kReligion$203kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $1,011,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,081,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $439k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MN Secretary of State$550,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop$40,000
Minnesota Voice$40,000
Leagure of Women Voters of Minnesota$35,500
Native American Community Development Institute$35,000
Asian American Organizing Project$35,000
Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accion Latina-COPAL Education Fund$35,000
American Indian Family Center$32,300
YMCA of the North - Center for Youth Voice$27,500
EMERGE Community Development$25,000
Karen Organization of Minnesota$25,000
National Youth Leadership Council$18,300
Deaf Equity$15,000
Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization (CMCEO)$15,000
CAPI USA$15,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Deaf Equity: $15k → 7%Community Integration Center: $75k → 9%Somali Community Resettlement of Olmsted County: $61k → 11%First Children's Finance: $70k → 11%Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging Inc: $32k → 15%Deaf Equity: $15k → 7%First Children's Finance: $55k → 11%Mwanyagetinge: $75k → 11%YMCA of the North: $1.4M → 11%YMCA of the North - Center for Youth Voice: $28k → 11%YMCA of the North: $23k → 11%YMCA of the North: $20k → 11%Neighborhood Development: $70k → 14%Karen Organization of Minnesota: $25k → 14%Sierra Leone Community in Minnesota: $26k → 11%Stairstep Foundation: $409k → 11%Native Governance Center: $14k → 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 10 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
55

Total granted

$1.9M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
  • FC
    FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +124%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • SF
    STAIRSTEP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $409k · revenue +33%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $404k · revenue -32%
  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +31%

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
African Development Center

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

Human Services
2
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
7
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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8
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
9
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
10
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
11
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
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 Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research and the most unlike its peers is African Minnesota Women Awawreness Group. 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 backsteadyYouth and Family Support Se…Food Assistance & Hunger Re…Environmental Conservation …Performing Arts Organizatio…Legal Advocacy & JusticeDisability Services & Emplo…Charter School Facility Com…School Support Foundations
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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/79
the rest of the field
14%
1,903/13,186

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

68 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. 68 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
37/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $1,455,600 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION O…STAIRSTEP FOUNDATION — $409,000 · Human ServicesSTAIRSTEP FOUNDATIONFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE — $125,000 · Human Services+9 more — $407,753 · Human Services+9 moreMN Secretary of State — $550,000 · OtherMN Secretary of StateHabitat for Humanity of MN — $166,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of MNMinnesota Parent Union — $75,000 · OtherISLAMIC CIVIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $71,097 · OtherCENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION — $69,960 · OtherGREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES — $74,950 · OtherHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $75,000 · Other+26 more — $978,181 · Other+26 moreCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $404,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY REINVEST…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $166,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES …SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA…SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST INITIATI…INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDAT…AFRICAN MINNESOTA WOMEN AWAWRENESS GROUP — $75,000 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN MINNESOTA …METROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $60,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $45,855 · Community Improvement+5 more — $149,299 · Community Improvement+5 moreAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN IN…GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND — $166,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MIN…COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES — $166,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY N…Latino Economic Development Center — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterLatino Econ…MINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMINNESOTA H…Youthprise — $150,000 · EducationYouthpris…AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $130,000 · EducationAFRICAN E…Marnitas Table Inc — $75,000 · EducationMarnitas …MIGIZI Communications Inc — $74,153 · EducationMIGIZI Co…IGNITE AFTERSCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationIGNITE AF…RIVERSIDE PLAZA TENANTS ASSOCIATION — $56,953 · EducationRIVERSIDE…AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $39,899 · EducationAFRICAN C…AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $28,500 · Education+1 more — $13,500 · EducationNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $130,000 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE — $130,000 · PhilanthropyNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $125,000 · PhilanthropyACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $42,500 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS — $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $13,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $166,000 · Public BenefitMinnesota Voice — $40,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$2,397,353Other$2,060,188Community Improvement$1,290,154Housing & Shelter$832,000Education$638,005Philanthropy$476,000Public Benefit$206,000

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 budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $1,455,600 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTAIRSTEP FOUNDATION — $409,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC — $404,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND — $166,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $166,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $166,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES — $166,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYouthprise — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center — $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $130,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE — $130,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $125,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE — $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMarnitas Table Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAFRICAN MINNESOTA WOMEN AWAWRENESS GROUP — $75,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMWANYAGETINGE — $75,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS COUNCIL OF CHURCHES — $74,950 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc — $74,153 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIGNITE AFTERSCHOOL — $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION — $69,960 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE PLAZA TENANTS ASSOCIATION — $56,953 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute — $56,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCROWN MEDICAL SUPPORT SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetMINNESOTA HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $49,356 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BEAUTYWELL PROJECT — $46,266 over 1y, 36% of budgetNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $45,855 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $42,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $42,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP — $40,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMinnesota Voice — $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCedar Riverside Neighborhood Revitalization Program — $39,999 over 1y, 21% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $39,899 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHUEMAN PARTNERSHIP — $37,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNESOTA EDUC — $35,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER — $32,300 over 1y, 0.5% 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…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Target FoundationOtto Bremer TrustNorthwest Area Founda…Greater Twin Cities U…The Bush FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationYouthpriseBCBSM Foundation IncWomen's Foundation of…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN70.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Northwest Area Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Bush Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Youthprise · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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 on Foundations 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%4%15%34%60%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
    30report 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 80 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.

    Source object · view filing

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