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Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trust

The MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST fund helps minnesota veterans integrate into society, and lead healthier and independent lives by funding programs for veteran organizations in the state of minnesota.

$254k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of MINNESOTA VETERANS 4 VETERANS TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $240,836 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,836 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM$79,999
MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$35,000
CAMP RIPLEY MINNESOTA VETERANS OUTDOORS PROGRAMS$25,459
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA$23,988
OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA$20,000
SOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY$15,000
SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR- 56 WI COL WILLIAM COLVILL$13,890
MINNESOTA FLYERS GYMNASTICS INC$10,000
MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA$7,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY: $15k → 8%INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC: $33k → 9%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $25k → 15%DISABLED VETERANS OF MN FOUNDATION: $86k → 14%VINE FAITH IN ACTION: $20k → 15%DISABLED VETERANS OF MINN FOUNDATIO: $45k → 14%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA: $24k → 14%EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS: $40k → 11%DISABLED VETERANS OF MN FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%DISABLED VETERANS OF MINN FOUNDATIO: $17k → 14%DISABLED VETERANS OF MN FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$1.1M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEmploymentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +270%
  • MV
    MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +63%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +658%

Funded once

  • MM
    MN MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • IL
    INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +44%
  • CC
    CAMP CUPERLIA OUTDOORS
    one grant, 2022 · $21k

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.

1
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
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2
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.

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3
Minnesota American Legion Foundation

To accumulate a trust to fund programs for minnesota veterans and their families not already funded from traditional revenue sources.

Public Benefit
4
Vfw Dept of Mn 210 Lakeville Post Vfw

Provide grants to organizations supporting our organizations mission and offer recognition to individuals who provide healthy community engagement opportunities.

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5
Disabled American Veterans Minneapolis Chapter 1

Advocate and assist disabled american veterans and their families to receive the assistance needed to carry on full and productive lives to whatever extent they are able to with their disability.

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6
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department 1210 Vfw-Mn

Veterans Service Organization

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7
Mn Veterans Pantry

The mn veterans pantry is committed to enhancing the lives of minnesota veterans by providing targeted financial support through grants exclusively for grocery and supply items. our current partnership with the minneapolis va medical…

Public Benefit
8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trust

The minnesota veterans 4 veterans trust fund helps minnesota veterans integrate into society, and lead healthier and independent lives by funding programs for veteran organizations in the state of minnesota.

Public Benefit
10
Veterans Central Council

1. flags of honor. maintaining the flags of honor, commerating deceased veterans by flying united states flags in a memorial park. the park is located in willmar, minnesota and is presently being conducted by members of the local american…

Public Benefit
11
Support the Troops Mn

Donating clothing and emergency financial aid to veterans, active duty personnel and their families.

Recreation & Sports
12
Veterans Airlift Command Foundation

The organization was created to support the veterans airlift command, a minnesota nonprofit corporation recognized by the irs as a 501(c)(3) public charity.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans and the most unlike its peers is Stairlifts for Vets. 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 14 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%28%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%41%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/40
the rest of the field
12%
2,545/20,530

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 42 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM — $107,938 · OtherMINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUMMINNESOTA ZOO — $107,500 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOOAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — $55,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERSDEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA OF THE VFW AUXILIARY — $49,500 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA OF THE VFW AUXILIARYMN MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL — $35,000 · OtherMN MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIALCAMP RIPLEY MINNESOTA VETERANS OUTDOORS PROGRAMS — $25,459 · OtherCAMP CUPERLIA OUTDOORS — $20,912 · Other+19 more — $205,992 · Other+19 moreDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INC — $198,194 · Human ServicesDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF…OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $60,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTAVINE FAITH IN ACTION — $45,000 · Human ServicesVINE FAITH IN ACTIONINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $32,500 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A …SOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY DBA IVY HOUSE — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION — $110,000 · HealthMAGNUS VETERA…MANDATORY FUN OUTDOORS — $30,000 · HealthMANDATORY FUN…ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH…Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $10,000 · HealthMinnesota Tee…MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $115,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA…MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICERS — $61,640 · Public BenefitEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitStairlifts for Vets — $10,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA FLYERS GYMNASTICS INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$607,301Human Services$360,694Health$170,000Employment$115,000Public Benefit$101,640Recreation & Sports$30,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION INC — $198,194 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $115,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY AND VETERANS MUSEUM — $107,938 over 3y, 10% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICERS — $61,640 over 2y, 56% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA OF THE VFW AUXILIARY — $49,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetVINE FAITH IN ACTION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $32,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA FLYERS GYMNASTICS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY DBA IVY HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMINNESOTA PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $14,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBear Creek Development Center Inc — $13,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetStairlifts for Vets — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART — $7,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPT OF MINNES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF MINNESOTA — $7,016 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Disabled American Vet…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation IncMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Veterans 4 Veterans Trust 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Veterans 4 Veterans Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 42 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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