How much did MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of MINNESOTA POWER 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

powerful volunteerlightingsecuritywarmingvolleyballparentingcaring

2020

covid crisiscrisis responseheatsharetowerduluth superiorchild caresupplies

2021

feedingfood bankimprovementsharvestcovid reliefcarecapital

2022

food insecuritiespickleball courtscafetoolschildrengearacademic

2023

renovationveterangrowthwilliam kelleymaintenanceexpansiongibeau volunteer

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

03FY2024 · 161 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k134 grants · $190k
$10k–50k23 grants · $418k
$50k–250k4 grants · $250k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$841k

Total assets

Largest grants

HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY$99,500
ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
GREAT LAKES AQUARIUM$50,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK$50,000
UNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES$41,000
UNITED WAY - NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA$30,000
OLD SCHOOL ARTS CENTER 210 GALLERY AND ART CENTER$30,000
DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$27,500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR FOUNDATI$25,000
STARBASE MINNESOTA DULUTH$25,000
DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA$23,500
ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA$20,000
CLOQUET AREA FIRE DISTRICT$20,000
NORTH COUNTRY RIDE$16,150
UNITED WAY OF CARLTON COUNTY$16,000

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 (FY19–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 97% 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 149 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

149 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149

236

Total granted

$2.8M

$793k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+23%

Still filing today

42%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $168k · revenue +32%
EH
ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +27%
DS
DULUTH SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $101k · revenue +27%

Funded once

LS
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +71%
NC
NORTHLAND COUNSELING CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +23%
MF
MESABI FIT COALITION
one grant, 2023 · $45k

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.

Run Minnesota

To serve the running community and support runners of all ages and abilities through education, programs, and advocacy. specifically, by developing educational resources and training programs that support and empower runners, facilitating…

Youth Development

Possabilities of Southern Minnesota

Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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Duluth Heritage Sports Center

The organizations's mission is to provide significant recreational opportunities to the citizens of duluth, mn. specifically the center's programs are directed to the youth of the city and the boys and girls club that utilizes a…

Recreation & Sports

MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Deer Hunters Association

The primary purpose of the organization is to achieve the best possible deer herd, to promote high quality hunting and to protect our hunting heritage. to achieve these purposes, the following activities whall be promoted: 1. present our…

Recreation & Sports

Minnesota Historical Society

Using the power of history to transform lives through educational initiatives, history exhibitions and programs, historic preservation, accessibility to a network of historic sites, publications of Minnesota historical content and archival…

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Rural Water Association

Mrwa provides professional on-site technical assistance and training to water and waste water system personnel in managerial, financial, operation and maintenance, source water and wellhead protection issues.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive

Preserve and promote the strong heritage of minnesota agriculture.

Food & Nutrition

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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Thief River Falls Amatuer Hockey

Promotion of Youth Athletics in the Sport of Hockey

Recreation & Sports

North Dakota Natural Resources

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Minnesota Hunter & Jumper Association

The minnesota hunter & jumper association's purpose is to support the hunter/jumper sport in the state of minnesota. our goals are to foster a community of hunter/jumper enthusiasts, strengthen local competition at all levels, represent…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing and the most unlike its peers is Ironworld Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/163

the rest of the field

155/2,703

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

137 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)

135/137

Grantees still filing

87/137

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,146,095Philanthropy$1,199,750Human Services$164,050Education$151,570Health$124,050Recreation & Sports$91,500Arts & Culture$64,800

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.

Duluth-Superior Area CommunityMN72.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Otto Bremer Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Grand Rapids Area Community · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Bnsf Railway 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 POWER 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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. 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: 7 STARS RANCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881388471 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 7 STARS RANCH, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% 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 Power Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Minnesota Power 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 POWER 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

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota Power Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MINNESOTA POWER 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

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota Power Foundation?

More from the funding graph