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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.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$666kFood & Nutrition$75kEmployment$70kEducation$50kInternational$50kHealth$25kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $67,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Migizi$20,000
Wildflyer Coffee$20,000
Transforming Families$20,000
360 Journalism$7,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $25k → 14%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $25k → 14%Transforming Families: $20k → 14%Foster Advocates: $20k → 14%Ain Dah Yung Center: $20k → 14%Spark- Y: $25k → 11%Ain Dah Yung Center: $20k → 14%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$799k · 13 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$799k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+213%

Still filing today

85%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • 3F
    30000 Feet
    3× · 2021–2023 · $76k · revenue +415%
  • CT
    CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $76k · revenue +310%
  • NV
    New Vision Foundation
    3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • SY
    Spark Youthgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +543%
  • WS
    World Savvygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +213%
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
World Youth Connect

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…

Youth Development
2
Minnesota Alliance With Youth

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 Development
3
Youth Farm and Market Project

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…

—
4
Youth Guidance

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…

Education
5
MyPath

MyPath provides youth from under-resourced communities with the financial knowledge, confidence, and tools they need to get on a path to building wealth.

—
6
Youth Ambassadors Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
New Pathways for Youth

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…

Crime & Legal
8
YouthCARE

Promote respect for self and others, develop future leaders, and provide youth with positive multicultural activities and relationships with caring adults.

—
9
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
10
Youth Leadership Initiative

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.

Youth Development
11
Twin Cities Rise

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.

Employment
12
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Independence; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

30000 Feet: $76,000 · Youth Development30000 FeetCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE: $76,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCEThe Cookie Cart: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie CartTHE BRANDLAB: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRANDLAB+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBolder Options: $75,000 · EducationBolder OptionsUPTURNSHIPS INC: $56,000 · EducationUPTURNSHIPS INCYouthprise: $35,500 · EducationYouthpriseWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $25,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION PARTN…Elpis Enterprises: $50,000 · Human ServicesElpis EnterprisesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR …Spark Youth: $25,000 · Human ServicesSpark YouthTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG: $20,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMING GENER…Foster Advocates: $20,000 · Human ServicesFoster AdvocatesNew Vision Foundation: $75,000 · InternationalNew Vision F…World Savvy: $25,000 · InternationalWorld SavvyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $10,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIE…RECLAIM: $75,000 · HealthROOTS FOR THE HOME TEAM: $75,000 · Food & NutritionMigizi: $40,000 · Other360 Journalism: $7,000 · OtherGreen Garden BaleryUrban Str: $6,000 · OtherWildflyer Coffee: $20,000 · Employment
Youth Development$283,000Education$191,500Human Services$155,000International$110,000Health$75,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Other$53,000Employment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget30000 Feet: $76,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE: $76,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNew Vision Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRECLAIM: $75,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBolder Options: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROOTS FOR THE HOME TEAM: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC: $56,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE BRANDLAB: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetElpis Enterprises: $50,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYouthprise: $35,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Savvy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFoster Advocates: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustYouthpriseFr Bigelow FoundationXcel Energy FoundationSundance Family Found…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Mortenson Family Foun…Greater Twin Cities U…Ch Robinson Worldwide…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN39.1× affinity18 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 · 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

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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Venture Partners Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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