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Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation
The SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the fund development arm of the chamber that makes it possible for the chamber to more fully realize its vision.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $182,957 |
| ACTION TO EQUITY | $35,625 |
| GRAND AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +244% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2018–2020 · $332k · revenue +86%
- MHMINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE4× · 2020–2024 · $87k
- HTHUNG TU INC DBA PEKING GARDEN CHINESE RESTAURANT2× · 2020–2021 · $80k
Funded once
- SPSAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $520k · revenue +252% · 68% of their budget
- LPLLOYD'S PHARMACYone grant, 2020 · $80k
- BIBREVITY INCone grant, 2022 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
Lake Street Council engages, serves, and advocates for the Lake Street business community in Minneapolis to ensure the vitality and prosperity of the commercial corridor. The Lake Street Council fosters economic vitality and amplifies Lake…
To educate our members and the community by developing programs designed to strengthen and expand the potential of asian pacific islander (api) businesses and the api community. sacc's core competency and our competitive advantage is our…
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
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.
ACT: Align Partners, Connect Businesses to Resources and Transform Native Economies.
The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Economic Development Association and the most unlike its peers is Action to Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ACTION TO EQUITY ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Neighborhood Development Center Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.