How much does Minnesota Freedom Fund give?

Minnesota Freedom Fund reported 1 grants totaling $101,372 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Minnesota Freedom Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (85%), Civil Rights (11%), Human Services (1%).

Who are Minnesota Freedom Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Communities United Against Police Brutality ($1.0M), Minnesota Freedom Fund Action ($600k), Alliance for Global Justice Corp ($350k).

Does Minnesota Freedom Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Freedom Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.

Where is Minnesota Freedom Fund based?

Minnesota Freedom Fund is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Minnesota Freedom Fund

The MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND pays criminal bail and immigration bonds for those who cannot otherwise afford to as we seek to end discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive jailing.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 38%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 19; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Minnesota Freedom Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	1	$100k	0%
FY2023	8	$455k	38%
FY2022	19	$2.6M	100%
FY2021	3	$170k	100%
FY2020	2	$303k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$6.9MCivil Rights$908kHuman Services$120kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$50kArts & Culture$40kYouth Development$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Communities United Against Police Brutality	$1,023,019	1	n/a
Minnesota Freedom Fund Action	$600,000	3	100%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$350,000	1	3%
We Resolve	$195,000	2	78%
The Freshet Collective	$150,000	1	100%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$150,000	2	1%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$125,000	2	4%
Mn8	$100,000	1	23%
The Advocates For Human Rights	$100,000	1	3%
Seeds Worth Sowing	$75,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Minnesota Freedom Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Communities United Against Police Brutality	$1,023,019	1	n/a
Minnesota Freedom Fund Action	$600,000	3	100%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$350,000	1	3%
We Resolve	$195,000	2	78%
The Freshet Collective	$150,000	1	100%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance	$150,000	2	1%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$125,000	2	4%
Mn8	$100,000	1	23%
The Advocates For Human Rights	$100,000	1	3%
Seeds Worth Sowing	$75,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Justice Research Center	$70,000	1	10%
Until We Are All Free Movement	$50,000	1	15%
The Network for Better Futures Dba Better Futures Minnesota	$50,000	1	1%
Conversations With Friends	$45,000	2	23%
Blck Press	$40,000	1	n/a
Afghan Cultural Society of Mn	$35,000	1	10%
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee	$30,000	1	n/a
Jewish Community Action	$25,000	1	4%
We Are All Criminals	$25,000	1	20%
Power of People Leadership Institute	$25,000	1	3%
Positive Image	$25,000	1	17%
Black Disability Collective	$25,000	1	n/a
Zakah Aid and Charity Assisting Humanity	$15,000	1	2%
George Floyd Global Memorial	$10,000	1	3%
Northwest Indian Community Development Center Nwicdc	$10,000	1	n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.

Minnesota Freedom Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN29.1× affinity13 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 · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · BCBSM Foundation Inc · Propel Nonprofits · Pohlad Family Foundation · Takeaction Mn Education Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Minnesota Freedom Fund

How much does Minnesota Freedom Fund give?: Minnesota Freedom Fund reported 1 grants totaling $101,372 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Minnesota Freedom Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (85%), Civil Rights (11%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Minnesota Freedom Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Communities United Against Police Brutality ($1.0M), Minnesota Freedom Fund Action ($600k), Alliance for Global Justice Corp ($350k).
Does Minnesota Freedom Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Freedom Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
Where is Minnesota Freedom Fund based?: Minnesota Freedom Fund is based in MN.