· Public charity
Minnesota Fair Plan
To provide owners and tenants of individual residences, small business owners, farmers and co-op residents an opportunity to purchase limited property or homeowners insurance when they are unable to do so in the voluntary market.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Minnesota Fair Plan’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Regions Hospital Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONS HEAT PROGRAM | $150,000 |
| MINNESOTA STATE FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION | $65,000 |
| MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ARSON INVESTIGATORS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
3 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Minnesota Fair Plan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Fair Plan. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Minnesota Fair Plan 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.
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