How much does Nexus Community Partners give?

Nexus Community Partners reported 6 itemized grants totaling $386,000, out of $5,763,032 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Nexus Community Partners fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Community Improvement (13%), Housing & Shelter (6%).

Who are Nexus Community Partners's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ($3.3M), Terra Firma ($150k), African Economic Development Solutions ($130k).

Does Nexus Community Partners fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nexus Community Partners?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice.

Where is Nexus Community Partners based?

Nexus Community Partners is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Nexus Community Partners

We co-create more liberated communities by strengthening leaders, cultivating community wealth and stewarding the just distribution of resources.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 2
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $386k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 23; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $40M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Nexus Community Partners funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionReligionEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$386k	83%
FY2024	2	$152k	100%
FY2023	17	$3.7M	12%
FY2022	23	$589k	39%
FY2021	18	$390k	67%
FY2020	17	$389k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.3MCommunity Improvement$687kHousing & Shelter$314kArts & Culture$186kFood & Nutrition$142kEnvironment$115kEducation$105kCivil Rights$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation	$3,276,535	1	56%
Terra Firma	$150,000	1	n/a
African Economic Development Solutions	$130,000	3	1%
Truartspeaks	$125,000	1	39%
Lower Phalen Creek Project	$115,000	4	5%
Pillsbury United Communities	$105,000	4	0%
City of Lakes Community Land Trust	$101,500	3	2%
Frogtown Neighborhood Association	$100,000	4	8%
Appetite for Change Inc	$100,000	4	1%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice	$100,000	4	2%

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All grantees of Nexus Community Partners by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation	$3,276,535	1	56%
Terra Firma	$150,000	1	n/a
African Economic Development Solutions	$130,000	3	1%
Truartspeaks	$125,000	1	39%
Lower Phalen Creek Project	$115,000	4	5%
Pillsbury United Communities	$105,000	4	0%
City of Lakes Community Land Trust	$101,500	3	2%
Frogtown Neighborhood Association	$100,000	4	8%
Appetite for Change Inc	$100,000	4	1%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice	$100,000	4	2%
Hmong American Farmers Association	$90,000	3	1%
The Fields Retreat and Learning Center	$90,000	3	7%
Hope Community Inc	$80,000	3	1%
Twin Cities Impact Cooperative	$75,000	1	n/a
Storehouse Grocers	$75,000	1	n/a
African Career Education & Resources In	$75,000	2	3%
Mni Sota Fund	$60,000	4	4%
African Career Education and Resource Inc	$55,000	1	n/a
Juxtaposition Arts Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers	$50,000	2	1%
Improve Group	$45,000	1	n/a
African American Leadership Forum	$30,000	1	1%
Ks Revolutionary Catering and More	$30,000	3	n/a
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota	$30,000	3	2%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$25,000	1	3%
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition	$25,000	1	4%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp	$25,000	1	0%
Community Partners	$25,000	1	0%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha	$25,000	1	1%
Live Free Chicago	$25,000	1	2%
Wilder Square Cooperative	$20,000	2	n/a
Neighborhood Development Center Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Love First	$20,000	1	5%
Loyd Real Estate Partners LLC	$17,500	1	n/a
New American Development Cente	$15,000	1	1%
Frogtown Garden	$15,000	1	9%
Elnoras Kitchen LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Merrick Community Services	$10,000	1	0%
Storehouse Grocers LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Housing in Action Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Minnesota Freedom Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Ks Revolutionary Catering and More LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Springboard for the Arts	$6,000	1	0%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.

Nexus Community Partners supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 FoundationMN46× affinity24 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 · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Northwest Area Foundation · Mortenson Family 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.

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About Nexus Community Partners

How much does Nexus Community Partners give?: Nexus Community Partners reported 6 itemized grants totaling $386,000, out of $5,763,032 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Nexus Community Partners fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Community Improvement (13%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Nexus Community Partners's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ($3.3M), Terra Firma ($150k), African Economic Development Solutions ($130k).
Does Nexus Community Partners fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nexus Community Partners?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice.
Where is Nexus Community Partners based?: Nexus Community Partners is based in MN.