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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.

$242k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$183k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.2MFood & Nutrition$302kHuman Services$199kHealth$195kPhilanthropy$180kArts & Culture$102kRecreation & Sports$47kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $183k
$35,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$182,957
ACTION TO EQUITY$35,625
GRAND AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $30k → 14%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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$646k · 6 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +244% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
65

Total granted

$646k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+244%
-37%

Still filing today

33%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • SP
    SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $332k · revenue +86%
  • MH
    MINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $87k
  • HT
    HUNG TU INC DBA PEKING GARDEN CHINESE RESTAURANT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k

Funded once

  • SP
    SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $520k · revenue +252% · 68% of their budget
  • LP
    LLOYD'S PHARMACY
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • BI
    BREVITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
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

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.

1
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
2
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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3
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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6
Lake Street Council

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…

Community Improvement
7
Metropolitan Economic Development Association

Helping minority entrepreneurs succeed.

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8
Alex Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce

Promote commerce & industry in alexandria, mn.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce

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…

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11
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
12
St Cloud Downtown Alliance Foundation

Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Economic Development Association; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $332,158 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCESAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $182,957 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONHUNG TU INC DBA PEKING GARDEN CHINESE RESTAURANT: $80,000 · OtherLLOYD'S PHARMACY: $80,000 · OtherBREVITY INC: $75,000 · OtherCASILLAS GLASS LLC: $60,903 · Other+61 more: $751,500 · Other+61 moreSAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $519,862 · Community ImprovementSAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANC…MINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $87,462 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF …SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $180,000 · PhilanthropyACTION TO EQUITY: $35,625 · Youth DevelopmentELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 · Human ServicesASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · EmploymentAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $20,000 · Education
Other$1,562,518Community Improvement$607,324Philanthropy$180,000Youth Development$40,625Human Services$30,000Employment$20,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: $519,862 over 1y, 68% of budgetSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $332,158 over 3y, 10% of budgetSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $182,957 over 1y, 44% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HMONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $87,462 over 4y, 12% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of 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 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 ↗

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.

Metropolitan Consorti…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Neighborhood Developm…Local Initiatives Sup…
Metropolitan Consortium of Community DevelopersMN38.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Neighborhood Development Center Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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 Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 75 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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