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Minnesota Nurses Association

To advance the professional, economic and general well-being of nurses and promote the health and well-being of the public.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$689kEmployment$182kPublic Benefit$147kFood & Nutrition$42kCivil Rights$36kEducation$20kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $63,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,170 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,170 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.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK$18,000
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA$15,000
BETTER TOGETHER MINNESOTA$10,000
LABOR CAMAPIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER$10,000
CENTRO DE TRABAJAORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION: $40k → 7%NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $18k → 6%OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS: $10k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $18k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $30k → 9%WORKING AMERICA: $25k → 14%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $15k → 21%NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $12k → 6%OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS: $10k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $28k → 9%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $12k → 6%OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS: $10k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $10k → 9%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $15k → 14%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%BETTER TOGETHER MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $12k → 11%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION HEALTHCARE MINNESOTA: $11k → 14%LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%NURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK: $10k → 11%SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION HEALTHCARE MINNESOTA: $10k → 14%LABOR CAMAPIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%15 NOW: $15k → 11%NEW BROOKWOOD LABOR COLLEGE: $10k → 14%LABOR CAMAPIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: $10k → 21%15 NOW: $15k → 11%WORKING PARTNERSHIPS: $13k → 11%WORKING PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 11%OUR STORIES OUR HEALTH: $225k → 14%MAIN STREET ALLIANCE MINNESOTA: $10k → 11%OUR STORIES OUR HEALTH: $100k → 14%NEW BROOKWOOD LABOR COLLEGE: $10k → 11%OUR STORIES OUR HEALTH: $75k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJAORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $13k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $33k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJAORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $13k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $23k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJAORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $10k → 11%TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA: $18k → 14%CENTRO DE TRABAJAORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA AFL-CIO: $26k → 14%MINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY: $11k → 11%MINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY: $11k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 4 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

13
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +193%
  • WP
    Working Partnerships Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $23k · revenue +175%
  • SE
    SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION HEALTHCARE MINNESOTA AND IOWA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • MN
    MASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +11%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue -6%
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +187%

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.

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Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
2
Education Minnesota

Education minnesota is a labor union representing approximately 86,000 members who work in public schools, higher education and other related fields throughout the state.

Employment
3
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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4
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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5
American Federation of Labor

The mission of the nd afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and nation.

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6
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 70

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition.

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7
Elevate Minnesota

To educate the public about the history, purpose and importance of Minnesota unions working in construction, truck driving, and other industrial operations to solidify public support for unions and show the public who the members of unions…

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8
Laborers' Int'l Union Local 563

Local 563 represents approximately 7,500 construction workers employed in minneapolis, mn, st paul, mn and surrounding areas. its purpose is to organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and…

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9
Laborers International Union of State of Mi

Collective bargaining and representation

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10
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
11
Massachusetts and Northern New England Laborers District Council

Membership organization representing approximately 17,000 union members for purposes of collective bargaining.

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12
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Working America and the most unlike its peers is New Brookwood Labor College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OUR STORIES OUR HEALTH — $400,000 · OtherOUR STORIES OUR HEALTHRIP MEDICAL DEBT — $68,000 · OtherRIP MEDICAL DEBTNURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORK — $64,000 · OtherNURSES PEER SUPPORT NETWORKOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS — $42,135 · OtherOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESSMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION15 NOW — $30,000 · OtherMINNESOTA AFL-CIO — $26,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICA — $25,000 · Other+2 more — $30,500 · OtherTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $137,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MI…LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE — $85,000 · HealthLABOR CAMPAIG…MINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY — $52,000 · HealthMINNESOTA ALL…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,500 · EmploymentCENTRO DE T…Working Partnerships Inc — $22,700 · EmploymentWorking Par…MN Council Number 5 of AFSCME — $8,000 · EmploymentMN Council …NEW BROOKWOOD LABOR COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationEAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY — $10,750 · Arts & CulturePEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$725,635Public Benefit$137,000Health$137,000Employment$116,200Education$20,000Arts & Culture$10,750Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOUR STORIES OUR HEALTH — $400,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $137,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE — $85,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetMINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY — $52,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS — $42,135 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS NURSES ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA AFL-CIO — $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorking Partnerships Inc — $22,700 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION HEALTHCARE MINNESOTA AND IOWA — $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BROOKWOOD LABOR COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetBetter Together MN — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMN Council Number 5 of AFSCME — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Service Employees Int…Education MinnesotaSeiu Minnesota State …The Minneapolis Found…Laborers Internationa…Headwaters Foundation…Mightycause Charitabl…
Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota and IowaMN19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Service Employees International Union Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa · Education Minnesota · Seiu Minnesota State Council · The Minneapolis Foundation · Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Mightycause Charitable 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 Nurses Association 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Massachusetts Nurses Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 19 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.

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