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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $67,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Migizi | $20,000 |
| Transforming Families | $20,000 |
| Wildflyer Coffee | $20,000 |
| 360 Journalism | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- 3F30000 Feet3× · 2021–2023 · $76k · revenue +415%
- CTCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE3× · 2019–2021 · $76k · revenue +310%
- NVNew Vision Foundation3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERSone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -31%
- WSWorld Savvygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +213%
- SYSpark Youthgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +694%
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.
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
Through service, Minnesota Alliance With Youth develops leaders who foster young people's individual assets, honor their voices, and prepare them to reach their goals.
Youth Farm's mission is simple - we farm to grow. We farm to grow food, community, and, most importantly, young leaders. Youth learn to plant, grow, cook, and responsibly distribute local produce while developing real world leadership…
A leader in social and emotional development, community engagement, and positive youth development, Youth Guidance has strategically created programs to address community needs across four delivery areas: Community & Afterschool Programs…
MyPath provides youth from under-resourced communities with the financial knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to get on a path to building wealth.
Youth Ambassadors is an educational program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to…
At New Pathways for Youth, we are building a future where every young person can live their life with joy and purpose, confident in their ability to decide their own path. To make it happen, we are transforming the lives of youth by…
Promote respect for self and others, develop future leaders, and provide youth with positive multicultural activities and relationships with caring adults.
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…
The mission of Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) is to develop a new generation of leaders who are prepared to build a thriving Twin Cities area and drive positive change in the systems that impact youth.
Twin Cities R!SE transforms the lives of participants overcoming socio-economic hurdles - including unemployment, underemployment, or justice involvementthrough Personal Empowerment, career training, and meaningful employment.
Face to Face advances economic and health equity for youth while providing support, opportunities, and access to resources as they build on their strengths and achieve their aspirations. Our vision is that all youth are valued for who they…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Independence and the most unlike its peers is Ain Dah Yung (Our Home) Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 30000 Feet ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds ROOTS FOR THE HOME TEAM ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds New Vision Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDLAB ↗
- Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds World Savvy ↗
- Who funds Spark Youth ↗
- Who funds Wildflyer Coffee ↗
- Who funds Foster Advocates ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Youthprise · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Sundance Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota 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.