· Public charity
Propel Nonprofits
The mission of PROPEL NONPROFITS is to fuel the impact and effectiveness of nonprofits with guidance, expertise, and capital.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $623k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOTED TO LAST | $623,250 |
| GOOD TROUBLE | $212,423 |
| RESIDENTIAL PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA | $185,550 |
| SPARK EDUCATION | $151,120 |
| REP COMMUNITY PARTNERS LLC | $125,300 |
| ONEMINNESOTAORG | $99,733 |
| BELIEVE IN WHAT'S POSSIBLE | $97,620 |
| MEMORIALIZE THE MOVEMENT | $95,068 |
| MINNESOTANS FOR THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY | $94,749 |
| AFGHAN CULTURAL SOCIETY | $74,326 |
| HOPE HEALTH AND HOUSING | $65,000 |
| ADVANCEMENT OF HMONG AMERICANS | $60,243 |
| TIBYAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $58,617 |
| YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE | $56,767 |
| URBAN VILLAGE THE | $56,704 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
159 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCoalition of Asian American Leaders5× · 2017–2023 · $811k · revenue +458% · 43% of their budget
- RTREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR8× · 2017–2024 · $768k · revenue +426% · 39% of their budget
- SFSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS5× · 2019–2025 · $544k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PEOPLES FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +52%
- NFNONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONSone grant, 2024 · $339k · 53% of their budget
- HHOURCARgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $287k · revenue +295%
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.
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.
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.
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
Wonderlust Productions is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts ensemble that illuminates a community's story through performance, mixing community members from across generations, ethnicities, and perspectives, alongside an ensemble of…
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…
Promote civic engagement by the African American community in Minneapolis, MN and surrounding communities. The goal of Lights On is to create a sense of agency within the community by educating members about the institutions that affect…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.
MAS activates and strengthens communities through art, raising awareness of the history and cultural contributions of Black Latinos for social change and racial equity.
We co-create more liberated communities by strengthening leaders, cultivating community wealth and stewarding the just distribution of resources.
To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through shared experiences.
TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming
Our mission is to cultivate, foster and implement sustainable and long-lasting change through Economic Development, Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Job Training & Career Development, Mental Health initiatives, Memory Loss and…
How this is measured
252 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. 252 of the 315 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BRIDGEMAKERS ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL FOR BLACK MALE SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds QUALITY EDUCATION SERVICES OF MN INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition of Asian American Leaders ↗
- Who funds REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RACING MAGPIE ↗
- Who funds BREAK THE SILENCE ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds Foster Advocates ↗
- Who funds MARKET ENTRY FUND THE ↗
- Who funds NEW NATIVE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THEATER MU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Tanka Fund ↗
- Who funds TEATRO DEL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA INDIGENOUS BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT FINANCIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Memorialize the Movement ↗
- Who funds Pangea World Theater ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOURCAR ↗
- Who funds Hmong Early Childhood Coalition ↗
- Who funds GOOD TROUBLE ↗
- Who funds AYADA LEADS ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTANS FOR THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY MACS ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Roots ↗
- Who funds PROJECT IMPRINTZ ↗
- Who funds ZTP ↗
- Who funds CLOSEKNIT ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR BLACK ECONOMIC POWER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MANIDOO OGITIGAAN ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Propel Nonprofits funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Propel Nonprofits. Bigger dots raise more.
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