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Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc

The mission of entrepreneur fund is to advance community economic development in rural and underserved communities.

$553k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$315kCommunity Improvement$292kHousing & Shelter$292kFood & Nutrition$137kRecreation & Sports$107kHealth$96kHuman Services$89kArts & Culture$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $490,734, the rows itemized in this filing. The $552,718 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,984 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $386k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASHMERE HAIR N BEAUTY SPA$14,000
LAKEWOODS TRANSPORTATION LLC$14,000
TAQUERIA LA MONARCA LLC$14,000
THE FRYBREAD SHACK$13,500
FARMBOYZ MERCANTILE LLC$13,052
MAYSQUARE$12,220
46 NORTH ENVIRONMENTAL LLC$12,200
SHEPPARD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT$12,200
HUDSON SQUARE LLC$12,200
JNJS UP N UP$12,200
STRONGMAN SMOKEHOUSE$12,200
WILDWOOD HAVEN RESORT & CAMPGROUND LLC$12,200
DU NORD MEAT COMPANY$12,200
HAYWARD BAIT AND BOTTLE SHOPPE$10,000
SONDER LLC DBA CAFE SONDER$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOMENTUM CENTER: $10k → 6%LAKEWOODS TRANSPORTATION LLC: $14k → 7%SPOKENGEAR: $10k → 8%DU NORD MEAT COMPANY: $12k → 9%MEDCYCLE SOLUTIONS: $10k → 9%BABY'S ON BROADWAY: $10k → 10%KNOX PROFESSIONAL CLEANING: $10k → 10%CUYUNA BREWERY: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR AUTISM AWARENESS AND SUPPORT: $10k → 11%EFFIE COUNTRY SERVICE: $10k → 11%WHITE BUFFALO RESORT: $10k → 14%ROOTS SALON: $10k → 12%SHEPPARD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: $12k → 16%CASHMERE HAIR N BEAUTY SPA: $14k → 16%HUMMINGBIRD CAFE LLC: $10k → 9%MAYSQUARE: $12k → 10%CUSTOM MARINE CANVAS AND SERVICES: $10k → 11%RKG & G - RIVORD AUTO: $10k → 11%THE VINCENT CREATIONS: $10k → 11%STRONGMAN SMOKEHOUSE: $12k → 12%MASTER CRUNCH USA: $10k → 12%SONDER LLC DBA CAFE SONDER: $10k → 12%OHNSTAD THERAPY SERVICES: $10k → 12%STEPHANIE'S THIS AND THAT: $10k → 12%SNOW RIVER COOPERATIVE: $10k → 14%WILDWOOD HAVEN RESORT & CAMPGROUND LLC: $12k → 14%HAYWARD BAIT AND BOTTLE SHOPPE: $10k → 15%HUDSON SQUARE LLC: $12k → 14%KONDO'S OUTDOORS: $10k → 8%DIGGITY DOWDLE: $10k → 10%DISCOVERY HORSE: $10k → 11%NORTHERN LAKES DENTAL OF GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%GENTLE HEALING ACUPUNCTURE LLC: $10k → 10%RICKS AUTO BODY: $10k → 11%CRADLE TO CRAYONS PRESCHOOL: $10k → 12%WHIRLY BOARD LLC: $10k → 12%HEN AND OAK HEMP FARM: $10k → 12%LUSCIOUS LOCKS: $10k → 14%TAQUERIA LA MONARCA LLC: $14k → 14%NORTHERN GROUNDS: $10k → 8%ARROW EMBROIDERY OF GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%KUTSINS BARBERSHOP LLC: $10k → 11%GATHER GROUP: $10k → 12%THE FRYBREAD SHACK: $14k → 14%46 NORTH ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $12k → 11%FARMBOYZ MERCANTILE LLC: $13k → 15%PALADIN PROPERTIES: $196k → 15%HIBBING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 15%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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
90

Total granted

$56k
$999k

Still filing today

0%
1%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $463k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • DD
    DOLL'S DAY CARE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
  • CC
    COPPER CROW DISTILLERY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k
  • RG
    RKG & G - RIVORD AUTO
    2× · 2022–2024 · $17k

Funded once

  • PP
    PALADIN PROPERTIES
    one grant, 2023 · $196k
  • LS
    LIGHTNING STORM GFX
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 142 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALADIN PROPERTIES: $195,814 · OtherPALADIN PROPERTIES+141 more: $1,322,256 · Other+141 more
Other$1,518,070

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

  • Who funds HIBBING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Northland Foundation
Northland FoundationMN17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northland 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 Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northeast Entrepreneur Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 142 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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