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NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE
North Country Food Alliance (NCFA) is a worker-run non-profit that takes action to strengthen food sovereignty in the Twin Cities Metro Area.
$497k
Granted FY2023
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01What you fund
01beneath 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
2020
donated distributionshelf kitchen
2021
storefridge storagedonations distributiondonations kitchen
2022
kitchen freefree mealdonations distribution
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2023
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $497,422.
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Median grant
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States reached
$60k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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 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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MinnPost
MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.
Arts & Culture
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Appetite for Change Inc
Community-led food justice org. using food as a tool for building health, wealth, and social change.
Human Services
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Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive
Preserve and promote the strong heritage of minnesota agriculture.
Food & Nutrition
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Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc
Inform, promote, connect and strengthen individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy
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Minneapolis American Indian Center
The Organization's mission is to provide excellent services witin a foundation of cultural values that help meet the needs of the American Indian community. The Organization offers services to the American Indian community in Minneapolis,…
Human Services
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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
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Community Mediation Minnesota
Community Mediation Minnesota is a statewide network of certified nonprofit service providers with skilled mediators, facilitators and circle keepers who are available to assist Minnesotans caught in conflicts they're ready to resolve.…
Crime & Legal
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Swedish Covenant Health
Swedish Covenant Health follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
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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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Food Group Minnesota Inc the
Fighting hunger. nourishing our community.
Food & Nutrition
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Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assau
MNCASA provides leadership and resources for sexual assault programs.
Crime & Legal
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Mill City Farmers Market Inc
Create a healthy community by providing local, sustainable and organic foods.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Community Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Augsburg University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 FoundationMN21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Food Group Minnesota Inc The · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Allina Health System · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to North Country Food Alliance?
Find your warmest path to North Country Food Alliance 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines