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Minnesota Education Trust
MINNESOTA EDUCATION TRUST (met) seeks to support religious centers, community centers, schools, and to assist other organizations that serve goals similar to the goals of met.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER | $42,860 |
| IQRA ACADEMY OF THE TWIN CITIES | $25,000 |
| STUDENTS PREPARED TO SUCCEED | $10,000 |
| AL IHSAN ISLAMIC CENTER | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Minnesota Education Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +145% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AJAL JAZARI INSTITUTE2× · 2017–2019 · $417k · revenue +145%
- SPSTUDENTS PREPARED TO SUCCEED2× · 2019–2020 · $28k · revenue +173%
- BBBUILDING BLOCKS INC2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue -99%
Funded once
- ZZACAHone grant, 2017 · $160k
- MAMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Darul Uloom is a nonprofit Islamic center that has been formed exclusively for educational and religious purposes. The center plays vital role in the lives of Muslims in the East of Saint Paul, Minnesota. The center is a place where…
To support the betterment of our society through a balanced, moderate, and authentic islamic education.
The mission of Masjidullah is to establish the Holy Qur'an as the guide book for all of humanity and the life of prophet Muhammad as the example for human conduct. Masjidullah carries out its mission through programs of community service…
Al-amal school is a nonprofit, full-time religious school with pre-k through 12th grades.
Buiding blocks offers a platform for concerned muslims to work together for the advancement of the communitys welfare through the provision of religious, educational, and social services to build bridges of mutual understanding with other…
Cairs mission is to enhance understanding of islam, encourage dialogue to protect civil liberties, empower american muslims, and build coalitions.
Provides religious, educational and cultural services and programs to the students, faculty and alumni of the University of Minnesota.
To disseminate religious knowledge in the Muslim as well as non-Muslim community To expand the circle of Islamic religious awareness, spread the teaching of Islam from its genuine sources.
To serve as a source of the authentic knowledge of Islam in North America by providing quality educational and training programs. We strive to graduate students who have a balanced understanding of Islam, to serve the community and the…
The Muslim Power Building Project (MPBP) provides training, resources, and collaborative learning space for Muslim organizers to advance racial equity, foster collective action, and create sustainable social change by building power rooted…
To conduct religious and cultural works helping new immigrants adapt to a new enviorment bridging communities of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Al-Rasheed Academy will provide each student with a safe, healthy, nurturing Islamic learning environment facilitated by skilled,creative and highly motivated professionals who promote lifelong learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Al Jazari Institute and the most unlike its peers is Building Blocks Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 organization Minnesota Education Trust 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.
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.
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