· Public charity
Serveminnesota
To strengthen minnesota through high-impact service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
- $250k+10 grants · $66M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING AND MATH INC | $57,457,242 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $2,246,680 |
| MN ALLIANCE WITH YOUTH-PROMISE FELLOWS | $2,090,744 |
| MN CONSERVATION CORPS | $1,667,507 |
| MN POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY | $1,091,176 |
| DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA | $318,753 |
| IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW | $292,264 |
| ST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK | $290,747 |
| MN ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER ADVANCEMENT | $258,884 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $256,907 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES | $242,404 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +80% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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
- RAREADING AND MATH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $263M · revenue +231% · 83% of their budget
- MAMinnesota Alliance With Youth7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +35% · 75% of their budget
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- MAMN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellowsone grant, 2017 · $2.3M
- TSTHE SANNEH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +71%
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.
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Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
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Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
To best prepare minnesota students with business, career and financial literacy skills through experiences that inspire success in work and life.
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
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Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Handson Twin Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 READING AND MATH INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Alliance With Youth ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds HANDSON TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Service Year Exchange Inc · Youthprise · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Serveminnesota 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.