How much did SERVEMINNESOTA grant in FY2024?

Education$249MYouth Development$13MEnvironment$4.7MHuman Services$2.8MArts & Culture$2.6MPublic Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MOther$10M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

place-based

2021

place-based

2022

empowerlives uniteunite sannehplace-based

2023

place-based

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k1 grant · $242k
$250k+10 grants · $66M

$318,753

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$286M · 15 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$286M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%

+154%

Still filing today

80%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

RA
Reading and Math Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $240M · revenue +213% · 80% of their budget
MA
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows
7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +35% · 69% of their budget
CP
College Possible
7× · 2018–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +76%

Funded once

TS
THE SANNEH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +154%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Youthlink

To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.

Human Services

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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African Development Center

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

Human Services

Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success. mity provides academic…

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Social Venture Partners Minnesota

SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a…

Philanthropy

Athletes Committed to Educating

Our sole mission is to help reduce the academic achievement gap in the twin cities and improve the futures for at-risk students.

Education

Aia Minnesota

Advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.

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Great Mn Schools

Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.

Education

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Minnesota State University Student

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a system, local, state, and…

Education

Youthprise

Youthprise (the Organization) is a Minnesota not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation established in 2010 by The McKnight Foundation. Youthprise is a youth-centered philanthropic organization that invests in the future of Minnesota by…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Alliance With Youth and the most unlike its peers is Duluth Area Family Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$248,577,212Youth Development$13,293,326Other$12,599,836Environment$4,699,440Human Services$2,828,814Arts & Culture$2,589,317Public Benefit$1,334,424

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Youthprise · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Minnesota Community Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Reading and Math Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472306902 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Reading and Math Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Serveminnesota?

Find your warmest path to Serveminnesota through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SERVEMINNESOTA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Serveminnesota?

More from the funding graph

SERVEMINNESOTA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Serveminnesota?

More from the funding graph