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Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$538kEnvironment$256kArts & Culture$249kFood & Nutrition$227kCommunity Improvement$185kHuman Services$175kCrime & Legal$133kEducation$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$478k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE$25,000
SAHAN JOURNAL$25,000
CTUL$25,000
HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION$25,000
GENDER JUSTICE$25,000
SHARING OUR ROOTS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA-UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE$20,000
HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY$20,000
MN8$20,000
ATWOOD CENTER$18,000
REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR EMPOWERMENT$18,000
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY$15,000
WATER LEGACY$15,000
HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE$10,000
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 (FY17–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE INC: $8k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE INC: $8k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE INC: $5k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE INC: $4k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $8k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $8k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 40 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
35

Total granted

$2.2M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+103%

Still filing today

68%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil 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

  • VF
    VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +26%
  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +227%
  • HO
    HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +376%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATURAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
  • BT
    BLACK TABLE ARTS COLLECTIVE (HEADWATERS FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • K
    KFAI
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

—
3
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
4
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
5
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

—
6
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
7
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

—
8
African Development Center

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

Human Services
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Nexus Community Partners

Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.

Philanthropy
11
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
12
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gender Justice; the most unlike its peers is Spiral Collective. 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

47 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. 47 of the 76 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $161,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMN8: $71,000 · OtherMN8HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $70,000 · OtherHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICEUNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $60,000 · OtherUNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICERELEASE MN8: $38,000 · OtherREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR: $83,000 · OtherREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FORJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $57,180 · OtherGENDER JUSTICE: $75,000 · OtherGENDER JUSTICEINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $40,000 · Other+44 more: $422,718 · Other+44 moreVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $168,300 · EmploymentVOICES FOR RAC…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $155,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE TRAB…Sahan Journal: $95,000 · EducationSahan JournalCENTER SCHOOL INC: $88,200 · EducationCENTER SCHOOL …UPTAKE INSTITUTE: $53,000 · EducationUPTAKE INSTITU…CLIMATE GENERATION: $40,100 · EducationCLIMATE GENERA…Grassroots Power Project: $16,000 · EducationAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN: $13,000 · Education+2 more: $13,650 · EducationALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY: $115,140 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE …SHARING OUR ROOTS: $93,000 · Community ImprovementSHARING O…+1 more: $2,500 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY: $135,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC …THE AWOOD CENTER: $61,500 · Arts & CultureTHE AWOOD…+2 more: $3,550 · Arts & CultureWATERLEGACY: $86,542 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $50,500 · EnvironmentMN350: $20,000 · EnvironmentWOMENS ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE AT AMADOR HILL: $19,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $8,000 · EnvironmentHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $133,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,077,898Employment$323,300Education$318,950Community Improvement$210,640Arts & Culture$200,050Environment$184,042Food & Nutrition$133,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $168,300 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $155,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY: $135,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $133,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY: $115,140 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSahan Journal: $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSHARING OUR ROOTS: $93,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL INC: $88,200 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWATERLEGACY: $86,542 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR: $83,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER: $61,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $57,180 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUPTAKE INSTITUTE: $53,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $50,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $40,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRedeemer Center for Life Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSPIRAL COLLECTIVE: $23,500 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMN350: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENS ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE AT AMADOR HILL: $19,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGrassroots Power Project: $16,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAYADA LEADS: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetOUR JUSTICE: $11,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $5,559 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEMN: $4,339 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHSIDE HARM REDUCTION SERVICES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEL COLEGIO CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $3,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPangea World Theater: $2,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENVENTURE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY ↗
  • Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
  • Who funds SHARING OUR ROOTS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERLEGACY ↗
  • Who funds REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR ↗
  • Who funds GENDER JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE AWOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds UPTAKE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
  • Who funds INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Redeemer Center for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPIRAL COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds MN350 ↗
  • Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE AT AMADOR HILL ↗
  • Who funds Grassroots Power Project ↗
  • Who funds AYADA LEADS ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN ↗
  • Who funds OUR JUSTICE ↗

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.

Headwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Women's Foundation of…Mightycause Charitabl…The Bush FoundationTarget FoundationOtto Bremer TrustTakeaction Mn Educati…John and Denise Grave…Northwest Area Founda…
Headwaters Foundation for JusticeMN73.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Takeaction Mn Education Fund · John and Denise Graves Foundation · Northwest Area 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 Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%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
    1get no government money at all
    14report 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 76 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-PF 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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