How much did MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION reported 10 grants totaling $106,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION based?

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION is based in MN.

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION

The MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION creates opportunities for law students to engage in public interest and pro bono legal service and increases the capacity of legal organizations that serve public interest

$107k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$19k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

districtindigent

2021

healthresearchprotectsee scheduleindigent

2022

healthresearchcriminal defensesee scheduleindigent

2023

see schedule

2024

robustprotectswell-beingnaturaloutreach

2025

indigent

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $51k
$10k–50k2 grants · $31k

$6,250

Median grant

States reached

$703k

Total assets

Largest grants

MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID$18,500
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL$12,500
LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COURT$6,750
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$6,250
CURE$6,250
CENTRAL MINNESOTA LEGAL SERVICES$6,250
NEIGHBORHOOD JUSTICE CENTER$6,250
JUSTICE NORTH$6,250
ANISHINABE LEGAL SERVICES$6,250
IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$6,250

02The need

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 (FY23–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$538k · 18 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$538k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+94%

Still filing today

72%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

SM
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES 55 5TH ST E STE 1000 SAINT PAU
6× · 2019–2024 · $122k · revenue +104%
ML
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID 430 1ST AVE N STE 300 MINNEAPOLIS MN 55401
6× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +72%
IL
IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA
6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +66%

Funded once

II
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OFgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +133%
CO
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +31%
T
TUBMANgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +30%

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.

Legal Aid of Manasota Inc

Legal aid of manasota provides legal services at no or low cost to those in need by partnering with local lawyers.

Crime & Legal

Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd

Provide legal services to low-income people primarily in hennepin county

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Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Legal Services of Northern Michigan

To be a public law firm that knows, as well as understands, the problems of even the poorest in our communities and addresses these problems through education, and with creative legal advocacy of the highest distinction. LSNM will be seen…

Crime & Legal

Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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Volunteer Attorney Program

To organize and provide volunteer attorneys to people who cannot afford an attorney in the northeastern region of minnesota.

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Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

Lcl provides free and confidential support and education to minnesota legal professionals

Health

Minnesota Justice Foundation

The minnesota justice foundation creates opportunities for law students to engage in public interest and pro bono legal service and increases the capacity of legal organizations that serve public interest

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Legal Assistance Center

The legal assistance center works to educate,empower, and equip the people of our community to resolve legal challenges and to assure access to justice by providing legal information, forms, resources and guidance.

Crime & Legal

North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic

Free legal servies to at risk community members in lake county and north suburban cook county

Crime & Legal

Our Justice

Our justice works to ensure that all people and communities have the power and resources to make sexual and reproductive health decisions with self-determination.

Health

Oregon Law Center

Provide legal services to low-income individuals.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance and the most unlike its peers is Tubman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

19/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$320,200Crime & Legal$204,450Environment$29,800Human Services$12,250Civil Rights$11,300Health$6,000

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN36.6× affinity17 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 Minneapolis Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Minnesota State Bar Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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 organisation MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF DAKOTA COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 410996581 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF DAKOTA COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Minnesota Justice Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Minnesota Justice Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota Justice Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota Justice Foundation?

More from the funding graph