How much did MINNESOTA STATE BAR FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of MINNESOTA STATE BAR 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

summer

2020

summer

2021

systemssexualchangevictimsfarmerseconomichiv

2022

indigentrightsclientslow-incomematterscivilinterest

2023

mattersinterest

2024

hispanichousinginterestengage

2025

interest

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

03FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $62k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION$61,746
LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$10,000
MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION$6,500
LAWYERS CONCERNED FOR LAWYERS$6,000

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 (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$592k · 13 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$592k

$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+42%

Still filing today

100%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalOther

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

LR
LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +38%
MS
MINNESOTA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
4× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +13%
MJ
MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +40%

Funded once

CL
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +31%
AF
ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +168%
VL
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORKgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +71%

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

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

Central Minnesota Legal Services

The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…

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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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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

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

Legal Assistance of Dakota County

Legal representation of dakota county residents with financial need.

Crime & Legal

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

Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal

Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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Legal Aid of Western Missouri

Every day, Missourians are denied access to the basic rights to which they are entitled under the law, simply because they cannot afford an attorney. Legal Aid provides free civil legal assistance to people who need it most and can afford…

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 All Parks Alliance for Change. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/36

the rest of the field

13%

1,866/14,883

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

35 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)

32/35

Grantees still filing

31/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$473,927Crime & Legal$184,010Health$94,000Education$86,000Human Services$50,000Housing & Shelter$44,000International$40,000

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN54.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Hennepin County Bar Foundation · Minnesota Justice Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Mardag 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 STATE BAR 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

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: LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~34 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 411694745 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 LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 34 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 17% 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 State Bar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Minnesota State Bar 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 STATE BAR 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

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota State Bar Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MINNESOTA STATE BAR 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

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Minnesota State Bar Foundation?

More from the funding graph