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Takeaction Minnesota
TAKEACTION MINNESOTA envisions a minnesota dedicated to the principles of strong communities, democracy, and equal opportunity for all.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAKEACTION MN FEDERAL FUND | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +250% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMTAKEACTION MN FEDERAL FUND5× · 2020–2025 · $426k
- UMUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +214%
- FIFAITH IN MINNESOTA2× · 2018–2023 · $127k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- VYVOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2022 · $205k
- ASALL SQUAREone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -46%
- IISAIAHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +57%
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.
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.
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.
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.
Minnesota Youth Collective is an organization that centers leadership development of the new generation of movement leaders, build a more representative and progressive state for all Minnesotans. equitable and just state for all people.
To ensure every minnesotan has a safe, decent, and affordable place to call home. we engage in community education activities, public policy advocacy, and providing technical assistance to service providers across the state.
Takeaction minnesota envisions a minnesota dedicated to the principles of strong communities, democracy, and equal opportunity for all.
We specialize in using digital and social media, media relations, and original content like videos, graphics, and blogs to increase support for progressive ideals. Together, we can build a Minnesota that works for everyone.
The mission of the Minnesota CDFI Coalition is to activate the collective superpowers of Minnesota CDFIs to achieve economic justice.
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…
Minnesota jobs coalition is organized to conduct research and promote citizen engagement regarding policies that lead to job creation and economic growth.
To educate the public about the history, purpose and importance of Minnesota unions working in construction, truck driving, and other industrial operations to solidify public support for unions and show the public who the members of unions…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vote Yes 4 Minneapolis and the most unlike its peers is Seiu Local 26 and Mspcca Labor Mana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH ↗
- Who funds SEIU LOCAL 26 AND MSPCCA LABOR MANA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds HOME TO STAY MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds HOUSING JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOME LINE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE THIRD RAIL ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT CAMPAIGNS ↗
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: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Takeaction Mn Education Fund · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Alliance for Metropolitan Stability · John and Denise Graves Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Target 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 Takeaction 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.