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Propel Nonprofits

The mission of PROPEL NONPROFITS is to fuel the impact and effectiveness of nonprofits with guidance, expertise, and capital. PROPEL NONPROFITS provides loans to nonprofits for facilities and working capital. We train nonprofit staff and boards to understand and build financial health, clear strategy, and strong governance practices. We…

$4.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
84
Grants FY2025
92
Organizations funded FY2024
52%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$42,219
Largest grant, FY2025
$623,250
Organizations funded a year
40 to 107
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$62M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Propel Nonprofits funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving84$4.3M33%
FY202492$3.8M52%
FY2023107$6.3M48%
FY202281$4.2M48%
FY202175$2.9M48%
FY202051$2.9M20%
FY201968$3.4M68%
FY201840$2.4M73%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.4MCommunity Improvement$5.7MYouth Development$4.2MEducation$3.6MHuman Services$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.5MHealth$1.1MCivil Rights$1.0MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bridgemakers$1,600,9555100%
The Council for Black Male Success$1,367,0242n/a
Quality Education Services of Mn Inc$1,035,369472%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders$810,648543%
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$767,661839%
Rooted to Last$623,2501n/a
Springboard for the Arts$543,74454%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc$515,50066%
Racing Magpie$515,000258%
Break the Silence$512,5625n/a
Show all 311 grantees
All grantees of Propel Nonprofits by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bridgemakers$1,600,9555100%
The Council for Black Male Success$1,367,0242n/a
Quality Education Services of Mn Inc$1,035,369472%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders$810,648543%
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$767,661839%
Rooted to Last$623,2501n/a
Springboard for the Arts$543,74454%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc$515,50066%
Racing Magpie$515,000258%
Break the Silence$512,5625n/a
First Peoples Fund$500,00018%
Spark Education$449,6263n/a
Foster Advocates$448,32566%
Parents Radically Organized Pros$438,6913n/a
Market Entry Fund The$419,099510%
New Native Theatre$395,200635%
Theater Mu Incorporated$362,499617%
Tanka Fund$361,93439%
Teatro del Pueblo Inc$345,433531%
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance$342,801472%
Nonprofit Financial Commons$339,403153%
Memorialize the Movement$327,485497%
Pangea World Theater$297,00054%
Youth Leadership Initiative$290,575362%
Hourcar$286,6911n/a
Hmong Early Childhood Coalition$283,263425%
Good Trouble$276,023253%
360 Impact$273,0002n/a
Ayada Leads$250,517468%
Monarch Joint Venture$243,448215%
Minnesotans for the American Community Survey Macs$242,721221%
Indigenous Roots$241,020510%
Project Imprintz$232,7463n/a
Ztp$220,369463%
Closeknit$217,028524%
Association for Black Economic Power$214,561519%
Oneminnesotaorg$203,0224n/a
Literacy Matters Foundation$192,9511n/a
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership$191,875320%
Manidoo Ogitigaan$185,722525%
Residential Providers Association of Minnesota$185,550150%
Community Health Fund$184,8574n/a
New Americans Alliance for Development$170,5452n/a
Family Values for Life$167,500619%
Voices for Racial Justice$166,87538%
We Win Institute Inc$165,262513%
30000 Feet$158,367510%
Minnesota Parent Union$156,875229%
Green Card Voices$143,404423%
Propel Nonprofits$130,73731%
Pollen Midwest$128,383210%
Rep Community Partners LLC$125,3001n/a
Frogtown Green$124,7405n/a
Intermedia Arts of Minnesota$120,9341n/a
American Indian Family Center$117,50033%
Somali Success School$117,500312%
Somali American Parent Association$117,500387%
Katha Dance Theatre$115,307315%
Dakhota Iapi Okhodakichiye$111,351218%
Believe in What's Possible$109,4452n/a
Aanjichigeng$105,1251n/a
LiveMore$105,018271%
Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming$98,51962%
Pillsbury United Communities$97,50020%
Solutions Not Suspensions Coalition$93,5423n/a
Juxtaposition Arts Inc$93,50132%
Creative Enterprise Zone$93,338194%
Great River Passage Conservancy$90,000123%
East Side Freedom Library$85,00038%
Turning Point Inc$85,00022%
Rosy Simas Danse Inc$82,000315%
St Paul Neighborhood Network$81,00043%
Nonprofit Information Networking Association$80,00011%
Charlie Life and Leadership Academy$80,000128%
Creative Tech Alliance$79,6942n/a
Partnerships for Permanence$79,2633n/a
Park Square Theatre$78,50141%
Walker West Music Academy$78,49941%
Cultural Diversity Resources$76,197533%
El Colegio Charter School$75,00013%
Wayside House Inc$75,00011%
Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches$75,00016%
180 Degrees Inc$75,00011%
Lower Phalen Creek Project$75,00012%
Family Tree Inc$75,00012%
Tubman$75,00011%
City of Lakes Community Land Trust$75,00013%
The Network for Better Futures Dba Better Futures Minnesota$75,00012%
Change Inc$75,00011%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc$75,00013%
Ncxt LLC$75,0001n/a
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc$75,00013%
Housing in Action Inc$75,00012%
MIGIZI Communications Inc$75,00012%
Jobs Foundation$75,00012%
Cornerhouse$75,00013%
American Indian Community Housing Organization$75,00012%
Afghan Cultural Society of Mn$74,3261n/a
Phumulani$74,0383n/a
The Organization of Liberians in Minnesota$73,20035%
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mas$73,000410%
Advancement of Hmong Americans$72,243298%
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie$71,383413%
Community Partnership Collaborative 2 0$71,3404n/a
Transmission Ministry Collective$71,0362n/a
Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network$70,00011%
The Road to Change$70,0001n/a
Arcata Press$70,000129%
Duluth Art Institute Assoc$70,000111%
African American Registry$70,0003n/a
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa$70,0001n/a
Indian Music Society Ofminnesota$70,000181%
Sacred Bundle Inc$70,0001n/a
Minnesota African American Hertiage Museum and Gallery$70,000192%
In Black Ink$70,000133%
Public Functionary$70,0001n/a
Department of Public Transformation$70,00015%
Soomaal House of Art$70,0001n/a
The Cowles Center$70,00012%
Taikoarts Midwest$68,20037%
Minnesota Autistic Alliance$67,4962n/a
Storyark$66,802316%
Field of Dreams Empowerment Center$65,5503n/a
Mn8$65,00024%
Basic Needs$65,0002n/a
Our Streets$65,00026%
New Arab American Theater Works$65,000230%
Sukoon Healing of the Minds$65,000211%
Hope Health and Housing$65,0001n/a
Roots for the Home Team$65,000241%
Listen Up Youth Radio Inc$65,000170%
Chinese Community Center$63,000123%
Divine Konnections Inc$62,68222%
826 Msp$61,01027%
Dream of Wild Health$60,00131%
(Neo)Muralismos de Mexico$60,000215%
Exposed Brick Theatre$60,000220%
Tibyan Community Center$58,6171n/a
Greater Minnesota Worker Center$58,40929%
Karen Football Association$58,075240%
The Urban Village Inc$56,7041n/a
Mn Zej Zog$55,9751n/a
We Resolve$55,871219%
New Roots Midwest$55,8022n/a
Sahan Journal$55,18023%
Alongside Network$55,050261%
Serpentina Arts Inc$55,000233%
Minnesota Harvest Initiative$55,0001n/a
Japan America Society of Minnesota$54,888233%
The Man Up Club$54,072213%
Black Butterfly Women Service$52,460250%
Sead Project$52,329121%
Onecommunity Alliance$52,005220%
Achla Alianza Chicana Hisp Lat Amer Alli$51,61527%
Family Freedom Center$51,010137%
Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary$50,582121%
Internal Housing Assistant$50,5662n/a
Somali Community Resettlement$50,00037%
Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota$50,00025%
Big Dreamers United$50,000135%
Victoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts$50,00012%
Native Skywatchers Incorporated$50,000126%
Bear Paws Cultural Art$50,000124%
White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians$50,0001n/a
Center for Broadcast Journalism$50,000114%
Mentoring Young Adults$50,0002n/a
Minnesota Seeds of Justice$50,00019%
St Croix Therapy Inc$50,00012%
Its Our Neighborhood Inc$50,000217%
Northern Eagle Federal Credit Union$50,0001n/a
Kulture Klub Collaborative$49,3351n/a
Commusication$49,000111%
Minnesota Deaf Muslim Community$48,766211%
Somali Youth and Family Development Center$48,520225%
All Nations Rise Inc$48,0011n/a
The JK Movement$48,00026%
East Side Neighborhood Development Company Inc$47,66721%
Somali American Farmers Association$47,3722n/a
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research$47,120219%
In Progress$46,021211%
Irreducible Grace Foundation$46,011138%
Strive Sisterhood$45,9811n/a
East African Integration Center$45,95124%
Somali Family Life Center$45,9071n/a
Community Integration Center$45,8202n/a
Ananya Dance Theatre$45,57128%
Twin Cities Iranian Culture Collective$45,500171%
Discapacitados Abriendose Caminos$45,4822n/a
Brownbody$45,47429%
Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers$45,00021%
East Metro Civic Alliance$45,000243%
Somali Museum and Cultural Center$45,00034%
Tusaalo$45,0002n/a
Center for Community Resources$45,00026%
Latinolead Inc$45,0001n/a
Twin Cities Media Alliance$45,000230%
Leech Lake Financial Services Inc$45,00031%
Cura Foundation$44,4953n/a
Center for Leadership & Neighborhood Engagement Inc$44,02728%
Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota$43,97927%
The Cedar Cultural Center Inc$43,50142%
Hallie Q Brown Community Center Inc$43,50031%
Tu Dance$43,50042%
The Hurston Institute for Learning and Development$43,4161n/a
Mothers Tutoring Academy$43,321120%
Oromo Community Inc Minneapolisst$43,2821n/a
Park Place$42,731218%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization$42,50042%
Thrive Ed$42,424138%
Soo Visual Arts Center Inc$42,25048%
Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project$42,000317%
Morning Glory Montessori$41,718116%
Speaking Out Collective$41,61319%
Global Shapers Minneapolis Hub$41,2454n/a
Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment$41,1331n/a
Alliance of Early Childhood Professional Wicoie Nandagikendan$40,39216%
Lovelys Sewing & Arts Collective$40,0003n/a
Akiing 8th Fire$39,578116%
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund$39,52014%
Denden Eritrean Youth Development Assoc of MN Inc$39,1481n/a
Community Dialogues with Multicultural Elders$38,2451n/a
Global Shapers Minneapolis$37,7191n/a
Hmong Museum of Minnesota$37,523231%
Urban League Twin Cities$37,50012%
Model Cities of St Paul Inc$37,50012%
Food for the People$36,4623n/a
Center for Coaching in Organizations$36,096236%
Wanton Injustice Legal Detail$35,1051n/a
Courage Coalition$34,911229%
Journie Inc$34,6002n/a
The Transparent Alliance$33,6201n/a
Coffee House Press Inc$33,50132%
Illusion Theater and School Inc$33,00131%
The Works$33,00131%
Filmnorth$33,00132%
Transmission Ministry Collective$32,800139%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems$32,563217%
Minnesota Computers for Schools$32,50012%
Crew Urban Youth Equestrians$32,3621n/a
Sisters Need A Place - SNAP$31,902212%
Lived Experience Advocacy Network$31,8982n/a
Young Muslim Collective$30,0442n/a
Macrostie Art Center$29,66625%
Saluting Branches$29,5492n/a
Northside Educational Alliance$29,2031n/a
Twin Cities Mussar$27,5221n/a
La Oportunidad Inc$27,327110%
Loring Collective$26,5183n/a
Somali American Community$26,000137%
Ota$25,6331n/a
Fortune Relief and Youth Empowerment Organization$25,2001n/a
Sharing Our Roots$25,00013%
African American Community of Practice$25,0001n/a
Skyline Math and Science Academy$25,00010%
Black Men Teach$24,0251n/a
Coven Inc The$23,2501n/a
Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association$23,2231n/a
Ne Sculpture Gallery Factory$22,50028%
The Good Acre$21,25012%
Northfield Splashpad$20,8862n/a
Jugaad Leadership Program$20,41628%
Steller Kindness Project$20,1142n/a
Wildflyer Coffee$19,73725%
Minnesota Ibpoc in Evaluation Community of Praxis$18,4941n/a
Minnesota Overdose Awareness$18,3041n/a
Black Community Board$17,1951n/a
Minnesota Fringe Festival$16,33312%
Commonweal Theatre Company$16,33321%
Looking Glass Books$13,9711n/a
African American Leadership Forum$13,3321n/a
New York Mills Arts Retreat$13,000123%
Ed Allies$12,50011%
Advancing Equity Coalition$12,500110%
Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation$12,50011%
Neighborhood Youth Academy$12,00015%
Northwest Hennepin Early Childhood Network$12,0001n/a
Afro American Development Association$12,0001n/a
Al-Maa'uun$12,00011%
Hispanic Outreach of Goodhue County$12,00013%
Immigrant Development Center$12,00014%
MAD DADS of Minneapolis$12,00011%
Bhutanese Community Organization of Minnesota-Bcom-$12,00016%
Center for Hmong Arts and Talent$12,00014%
Free Clinic of Steele County$12,0001n/a
Dakota Wicohan$12,00011%
African Community Senior Services$12,00013%
Science and Social Studies Adventures$11,7071n/a
Urban Bird Collective$11,6731n/a
Cycling Without Age Twin Cities$11,0001n/a
Dave Alderson$10,0001n/a
Youthprise$10,00010%
African Economic Development Solutions$10,00012%
Cycles for Change$10,0001n/a
Ujamaa Place$10,00010%
Itasca Community Television Inc$10,00013%
St Paul Youth Services$10,00011%
Itasca Life Options$10,00011%
Elpis Enterprises$10,00013%
Forward Health Foundation$10,00017%
Eldercircle$10,00011%
Kootasca Community Action Inc$10,00010%
Compas Inc$10,00011%
Asian Economic Development Association$10,00011%
Portico Healthnet$10,00010%
Sabathani Community Center$9,00010%
Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota$9,00011%
Connections to Independence$9,00011%
Upton Program$8,3831n/a
Somali American Coalition of Minnesota$7,0001n/a
Hnub Tshiab - Hmong Women Achieving Together$6,31818%
Harambee Sports Club$5,7821n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Propel Nonprofits supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 49 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBridgemakers: $1,600,955 over 5y, 100% of budgetQuality Education Services of Mn Inc: $1,035,369 over 4y, 72% of budgetCoalition of Asian American Leaders: $810,648 over 5y, 43% of budgetReviving the Islamic Sisterhood For: $767,661 over 8y, 39% of budgetSpringboard for the Arts: $543,744 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetPenumbra Theatre Company Inc: $515,500 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetRacing Magpie: $515,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetFirst Peoples Fund: $500,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFoster Advocates: $448,325 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetMarket Entry Fund The: $419,099 over 5y, 10% of budgetNew Native Theatre: $395,200 over 6y, 35% of budgetTheater Mu Incorporated: $362,499 over 6y, 17% of budgetTanka Fund: $361,934 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetTeatro del Pueblo Inc: $345,433 over 5y, 31% of budgetMinnesota Indigenous Business Alliance: $342,801 over 4y, 72% of budgetNonprofit Financial Commons: $339,403 over 1y, 53% of budgetMemorialize the Movement: $327,485 over 4y, 97% of budgetPangea World Theater: $297,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetYouth Leadership Initiative: $290,575 over 3y, 62% of budgetHmong Early Childhood Coalition: $283,263 over 4y, 25% of budgetGood Trouble: $276,023 over 2y, 53% of budgetAyada Leads: $250,517 over 4y, 68% of budgetMonarch Joint Venture: $243,448 over 2y, 15% of budgetMinnesotans for the American Community Survey Macs: $242,721 over 2y, 21% of budgetIndigenous Roots: $241,020 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetZtp: $220,369 over 4y, 63% of budgetCloseknit: $217,028 over 5y, 24% of budgetAssociation for Black Economic Power: $214,561 over 5y, 19% of budgetMinnesota Education Equity Partnership: $191,875 over 3y, 20% of budgetManidoo Ogitigaan: $185,722 over 5y, 25% of budgetResidential Providers Association of Minnesota: $185,550 over 1y, 50% of budgetFamily Values for Life: $167,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetVoices for Racial Justice: $166,875 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetWe Win Institute Inc: $165,262 over 5y, 13% of budget30000 Feet: $158,367 over 5y, 10% of budgetMinnesota Parent Union: $156,875 over 2y, 29% of budgetGreen Card Voices: $143,404 over 4y, 23% of budgetPropel Nonprofits: $130,737 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPollen Midwest: $128,383 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetAmerican Indian Family Center: $117,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSomali Success School: $117,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetSomali American Parent Association: $117,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetKatha Dance Theatre: $115,307 over 3y, 15% of budgetDakhota Iapi Okhodakichiye: $111,351 over 2y, 18% of budgetLiveMore: $105,018 over 2y, 71% of budgetMewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming: $98,519 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPillsbury United Communities: $97,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJuxtaposition Arts Inc: $93,501 over 3y, 1.7% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationMN157.6× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · Youthprise · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Bush 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 Propel Nonprofits

How much does Propel Nonprofits give?
Propel Nonprofits reported 84 grants totaling $4,354,377 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 107 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Propel Nonprofits fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Community Improvement (18%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Propel Nonprofits's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bridgemakers ($1.6M), The Council for Black Male Success ($1.4M), Quality Education Services of Mn Inc ($1.0M).
Does Propel Nonprofits fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Propel Nonprofits?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fr Bigelow Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Headwaters Foundation for Justice.
Where is Propel Nonprofits based?
Propel Nonprofits is based in MN.

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 315 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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