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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Ayada Leads$22,000
Queer Equity Institute$22,000
Lead MN$20,000
Minnesota Youth Collectove$20,000
NACDI$16,200
YMCA Center for Youth Voice$15,000
Tone Up$15,000
Alliance for a Better MN Ed Fund$15,000
Minnesota Unitarian Universalist SJ$12,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%ANIKA FOUNDATION: $105k → 11%DAYTON'S BLUFF-HAJ: $10k → 14%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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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%
+23%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
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
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
5
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
6
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
7
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.

—
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
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
10
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
11
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
12
Minnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance

The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/62
Grantees still filing
35/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNew American Development Cente: $100,000 over 6y, 20% 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 budgetSomali Community Resettlement: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $25,250 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MINNESOTA EDUC: $25,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWomen For Political Action Change Education & Advo: $25,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHarrison Neighborhood Association: $22,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetMinnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance: $22,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetAFRO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 5y, 7.0% 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 budgetCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT: $20,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA: $20,000 over 5y, 8.8% 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 budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minnesota Voice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Voice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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