How much does Serveminnesota give?

Serveminnesota reported 11 grants totaling $66,213,339 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Serveminnesota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Youth Development (5%), Environment (3%).

Who are Serveminnesota's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Reading and Math Inc ($263M), Minnesota Alliance With Youth ($13M), College Possible Inc ($8.6M).

Does Serveminnesota fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Serveminnesota?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Serveminnesota

To strengthen minnesota through high-impact service.

$66M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 8%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $318,753
Largest grant, FY2024: $57,457,242
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 13; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Serveminnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentPublic BenefitEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	11	$66M	9%
FY2023	12	$51M	8%
FY2022	12	$44M	8%
FY2021	12	$38M	0%
FY2020	13	$28M	8%
FY2019	12	$28M	0%
FY2018	12	$29M	17%
FY2017	11	$28M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$274MYouth Development$16MEnvironment$10MHuman Services$4.9MArts & Culture$3.0MHousing & Shelter$2.3MCivil Rights$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.3MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Reading and Math Inc	$262,867,857	8	83%
Minnesota Alliance With Youth	$12,961,541	7	75%
College Possible Inc	$8,614,217	8	7%
Conservation Corps	$5,183,533	8	11%
Minnesota Zoo	$4,956,527	8	n/a
Duluth Area Family YMCA	$3,274,394	8	6%
St Paul Neighborhood Network	$2,996,237	8	22%
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows	$2,323,544	1	n/a
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity	$2,302,099	8	1%
Minneapolis Public School	$2,160,384	7	n/a

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All grantees of Serveminnesota by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Reading and Math Inc	$262,867,857	8	83%
Minnesota Alliance With Youth	$12,961,541	7	75%
College Possible Inc	$8,614,217	8	7%
Conservation Corps	$5,183,533	8	11%
Minnesota Zoo	$4,956,527	8	n/a
Duluth Area Family YMCA	$3,274,394	8	6%
St Paul Neighborhood Network	$2,996,237	8	22%
MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows	$2,323,544	1	n/a
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity	$2,302,099	8	1%
Minneapolis Public School	$2,160,384	7	n/a
City of Saint Paul	$1,597,972	4	n/a
Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement	$1,372,532	8	42%
National Lead for America Inc	$1,334,424	4	6%
Breakthrough Twin Cities	$560,024	2	21%
Improve Your Tomorrow Inc	$292,264	1	2%
Handson Twin Cities	$263,377	4	10%
The Sanneh Foundation	$39,521	1	1%

Serveminnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Serveminnesota

How much does Serveminnesota give?: Serveminnesota reported 11 grants totaling $66,213,339 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Serveminnesota fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Youth Development (5%), Environment (3%).
Who are Serveminnesota's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Reading and Math Inc ($263M), Minnesota Alliance With Youth ($13M), College Possible Inc ($8.6M).
Does Serveminnesota fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Serveminnesota?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Serveminnesota based?: Serveminnesota is based in MN.