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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.

$515k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$3.1MCivil Rights$370kEducation$113kArts & Culture$109kEnvironment$86kHuman Services$72kCommunity Improvement$56kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Youth Collective Ed Fund$70,000
COPAL MN$54,000
Minnesota Student Association$45,000
MN NORML$32,000
Somali Community Resettlement Svs$30,000
Students United$30,000
Queer Equity Institute$22,000
Ayada Leads$22,000
Minnesota Youth Collectove$20,000
Lead MN$20,000
NACDI$16,200
Alliance for a Better MN Ed Fund$15,000
Tone Up$15,000
YMCA Center for Youth Voice$15,000
Minnesota Unitarian Universalist SJ$12,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $513k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESOURCE JUSTICE AND MANAGMENT: $25k → 7%Asamblea De Derechos Civiles: $20k → 11%YMCA Center for Youth Voice: $15k → 14%Ayada Leads: $22k → 11%Somali Community Resettlement Svs: $30k → 11%DAYTON'S BLUFF-HAJ: $10k → 14%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $105k → 11%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $78k → 11%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%OPEN ACCESS CONNECTIONS: $23k → 11%Anika Foundation: $5k → 14%LUTHERN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%OPEN ACCESS CONNECTIONS: $20k → 11%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%OPEN ACCESS CONNECTIONS: $5k → 11%UJAMAA PLACE: $10k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AYADA LEADS: $33k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $25k → 11%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $21k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
33

Total granted

$2.8M
$820k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+37%

Still filing today

76%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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 ServicesCivil RightsEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

  • TA
    THE ANIKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $234k · revenue +298% · 31% of their budget
  • NA
    Native American Community Development Institute
    4× · 2020–2024 · $204k · revenue +71%
  • BC
    BLACK CIVIC NETWORK
    5× · 2018–2022 · $198k · revenue +160% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • I
    ISAIAHgraduated
    3× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +86%
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE'S CANVASS
    one grant, 2022 · $56k
  • A
    AAOP
    3× · 2020–2022 · $55k

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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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
2
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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3
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
4
Alliance for a Better Minnesota

We specialize in using digital and social media, media relations, and original content like videos, graphics, and blogs to increase support for progressive ideals. Together, we can build a Minnesota that works for everyone.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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7
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
8
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
9
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
10
Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education
11
Protect Minnesota

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build…

Education
12
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is African American Interpretive Center of Minnesota. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGender Justice & Victim Adv…Legal Advocacy & JusticeAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Community Devel…Senior Affordable HousingYouth & Family Support Serv…Senior Residential CareEnvironmental Advocacy & Su…
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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr15%11%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
5/75
the rest of the field
14%
1,901/13,190

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

62 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. 62 of the 75 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/62
Grantees still filing
35/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ONEMINNESOTAORG — $205,712 · OtherONEMINNESOTAORGBLACK CIVIC NETWORK — $197,803 · OtherBLACK CIVIC NETWORKCALIFORNIA MAIN STREET ALLIANCE — $58,854 · OtherTHE PEOPLE'S CANVASS — $56,250 · OtherAAOP — $55,214 · OtherISAIAH — $144,902 · OtherISAIAHTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUNDGENDER JUSTICE — $62,500 · Other+31 more — $570,968 · Other+31 moreAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $180,884 · EducationAFRICAN CAREER EDUCA…UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $136,672 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDU…Minnesota State College Student Association Inc — $114,000 · EducationMinnesota State Coll…New American Development Cente — $100,000 · EducationNew American Develop…MINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND — $70,000 · EducationMINNESOTA YOUTH COLL…MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC — $52,000 · EducationMINNESOTA STATE UNIV…Minnesota Student Association — $45,000 · EducationMinnesota Student As…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $234,194 · Human ServicesTHE ANIKA FOUN…AYADA LEADS — $100,378 · Human ServicesAYADA LEADSOPEN ACCESS CONNECTIONS — $48,475 · Human ServicesOPEN ACCESS CO…Somali Community Resettlement — $30,000 · Human ServicesSomali Communi…RESOURCES JUSTICE & MANAGEMENT — $25,000 · Human ServicesPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA — $20,000 · Human Services+5 more — $55,000 · Human Services+5 moreGrassRoots In Action — $96,390 · Civil RightsGrassRoots …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $54,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL-EDUCA…JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $50,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMM…MINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $25,250 · Civil RightsMINNESOTA Y…COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $25,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON …Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance — $22,500 · Civil RightsMinnesota U…OUTFRONT MINNESOTA — $20,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES — $17,787 · Civil RightsMinnesota NORML — $328,216 · HealthMinnesota…Native American Community Development Institute — $204,200 · Arts & CultureNative Am…CENTER FOR HMONG ARTS AND TALENT — $74,400 · Arts & CultureCENTER FO…MINNESOTA PEOPLE OF COLOR LGBT PRIDE — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHONOR THE EARTH — $142,342 · EnvironmentMN350 — $66,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $20,000 · Environment
Other$1,452,203Education$708,556Human Services$513,047Civil Rights$400,927Health$328,216Arts & Culture$323,600Environment$228,342

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMinnesota NORML — $328,216 over 6y, 55% of budgetTHE ANIKA FOUNDATION — $234,194 over 6y, 31% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute — $204,200 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetBLACK CIVIC NETWORK — $197,803 over 5y, 36% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN — $180,884 over 5y, 10% of budgetISAIAH — $144,902 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $142,342 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $136,672 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetMinnesota State College Student Association Inc — $114,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetAYADA LEADS — $100,378 over 4y, 18% of budgetNew American Development Cente — $100,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGrassRoots In Action — $96,390 over 2y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HMONG ARTS AND TALENT — $74,400 over 5y, 25% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND — $70,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMN350 — $66,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE — $62,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $54,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC — $52,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMinnesota Student Association — $45,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetPRO-CHOICE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $39,418 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC — $36,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EVERY CHILD MATTERS EDUCATION F UND INC — $35,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSomali Community Resettlement — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $25,250 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetWomen For Political Action Change Education & Advo — $25,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNESOTA EDUC — $25,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetMinnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance — $22,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetHarrison Neighborhood Association — $22,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetAFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA — $20,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $20,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA — $20,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetPrevent Child Abuse Minnesota — $20,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDISTRICT 1 COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $17,787 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minneota Education Fund — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAPI USA — $10,350 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT 2 COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHIGH SCHOOL FOR RECORDING ARTS — $10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 6y, 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.

The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Headwaters Foundation…Women's Foundation of…Otto Bremer TrustGreater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationAlliance for Metropol…Still Ain'T Satisfied…Takeaction Mn Educati…Northwest Area Founda…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN60.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Alliance for Metropolitan Stability · Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas) · Takeaction Mn Education Fund · Northwest Area 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 Voice 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Voice?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Voice 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 75 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.

    Source object · view filing

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