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Serveminnesota

To strengthen minnesota through high-impact service.

$66M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$57M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
  • $250k+10 grants · $66M
$318,753
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $498k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $472k → 15%Duluth Area Family YMCA: $446k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $428k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $425k → 15%Duluth Area Family YMCA: $420k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $319k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $267k → 15%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$310M · 14 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +71% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$310M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+71%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • RA
    READING AND MATH INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $263M · revenue +231% · 83% of their budget
  • MA
    Minnesota Alliance With Youth
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +35% · 75% of their budget
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • MA
    MN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows
    one grant, 2017 · $2.3M
  • TS
    THE SANNEH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +71%
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
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
2
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
3
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment
4
Leadership Matters Mn

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.

Education
5
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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6
Bestprep

To best prepare minnesota students with business, career and financial literacy skills through experiences that inspire success in work and life.

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7
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.

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8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
11
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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12
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING AND MATH INC: $262,867,857 · EducationREADING AND MATH INC+2 more: $9,174,241 · EducationMINNESOTA ZOO: $4,956,527 · OtherMN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows: $2,323,544 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,302,099 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL: $2,160,384 · OtherCITY OF SAINT PAUL: $1,597,972 · OtherNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $1,334,424 · OtherSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1,228,145 · Other+1 more: $263,377 · OtherMinnesota Alliance With Youth: $12,961,541 · Youth Development+2 more: $331,785 · Youth DevelopmentCONSERVATION CORPS: $5,183,533 · EnvironmentDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $3,274,394 · Human ServicesST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $2,996,237 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER ADVANCEMENT: $1,372,532 · Civil Rights
Education$272,042,098Other$16,166,472Youth Development$13,293,326Environment$5,183,533Human Services$3,274,394Arts & Culture$2,996,237Civil Rights$1,372,532

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREADING AND MATH INC: $262,867,857 over 8y, 83% of budgetMinnesota Alliance With Youth: $12,961,541 over 7y, 75% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $8,614,217 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS: $5,183,533 over 8y, 11% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $3,274,394 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetST PAUL NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $2,996,237 over 8y, 22% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,302,099 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER ADVANCEMENT: $1,372,532 over 8y, 42% of budgetNATIONAL LEAD FOR AMERICA INC: $1,334,424 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1,228,145 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $560,024 over 2y, 21% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $292,264 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHANDSON TWIN CITIES: $263,377 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $39,521 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 ↗

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 & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Service Year Exchange…YouthpriseAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Serveminnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serveminnesota. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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