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Takeaction Mn Education Fund

Takeaction minnesota education fund envisions a minnesota dedicated to the principles of strong communities, democracy, and equal opportunity for all.

$7.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$9.5MEnvironment$580kEmployment$360kArts & Culture$256kPublic Benefit$210kReligion$198kCommunity Improvement$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $6,923,065 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,241,999 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $318,934 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

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.5M
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK VISIONS$6,550,000
ARAB AMERICANS FOR PROGRESS$174,565
TENDING THE SOIL$75,000
THE BLOC$75,000
JUXTAPOSITION INC$16,000
MN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED JUDICIAL REFORM$12,500
AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCE INC$10,000
REVOLUTION DANCE WORKS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%1 DAY AT A TIME: $25k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%AVIVO: $10k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.8M · 10 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
39

Total granted

$9.8M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • I
    ISAIAH
    6× · 2017–2023 · $798k · revenue +101%
  • M
    MN350
    3× · 2018–2020 · $206k · revenue +3%
  • AP
    ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • N
    NOC
    one grant, 2017 · $289k
  • TA
    THE AWOOD CENTER
    2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue -48%
  • BN
    Bryant Neighborhood Organization
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -73% · 53% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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.

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3
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.

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4
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.

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5
Lights On

Promote civic engagement by the African American community in Minneapolis, MN and surrounding communities. The goal of Lights On is to create a sense of agency within the community by educating members about the institutions that affect…

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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
Our Justice

To ensure that all people and communities have the power and resources to make sexual and reproductive health decisions with self-determination.

Health
8
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
9
Alliance for a Better Minnesota

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.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a statewide coalition driving transformative culture change to address sexual violence through advocacy, prevention, racial justice, and systems change. We envision a world free of sexual…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Dont Shoot Guns Shoot Hoops. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability Employment Servi…Educational Foundations & F…Christian Ministry Organiza…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Legal Advocacy & JusticeYouth Sports LeaguesLabor UnionsUnion Trade Benefit FundsYouth Development and Suppo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%12%<5yr14%22%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr13%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%74%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr15%4%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 74% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
4/83
the rest of the field
14%
1,901/13,182

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.

04the grantee network

73 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
32/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BLACK VISIONS — $7,875,000 · Civil RightsBLACK VISIONS+2 more — $182,565 · Civil RightsLITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 · OtherLITTLE EARTH RES…NOC — $288,750 · OtherNOCOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $95,000 · OtherOUTFRONT MINNESO…MAIN STREET ALLIANCE — $86,500 · OtherTHE BLOC INC — $75,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOODS ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE — $60,000 · OtherCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,000 · OtherWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT — $80,000 · OtherGENDER JUSTICE — $75,000 · Other+31 more — $577,250 · Other+31 moreISAIAH — $797,949 · ReligionMN350 — $206,224 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY POWER — $160,000 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $24,000 · EnvironmentTHE AWOOD CENTER — $150,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP — $125,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureREVOLUTION DANCE WORKS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBryant Neighborhood Organization — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTENDING THE SOIL MN — $75,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $52,500 · Community ImprovementACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $160,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$8,057,565Other$1,722,500Religion$797,949Environment$390,224Arts & Culture$295,000Community Improvement$227,500Philanthropy$170,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLACK VISIONS — $7,875,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetISAIAH — $797,949 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetLITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMN350 — $206,224 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY POWER — $160,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES — $160,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP — $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBryant Neighborhood Organization — $100,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $95,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $85,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT — $80,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE — $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $46,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND — $43,750 over 2y, 15% of budgetSOUTHSIDE HARM REDUCTION SERVICES — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFamily Tree Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDAKOTA CHILD AND FAMILY CLINIC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSWOP Minneapolis — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budget1 DAY AT A TIME — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $24,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL — $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSISTERS CAMELOT — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF DISCIPLINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWildflyer Coffee — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPIRAL COLLECTIVE — $10,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL RIGHTS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONT SHOOT GUNS SHOOT HOOPS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAVIVO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREVOLUTION DANCE WORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $8,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Headwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Women's Foundation of…Pohlad Family Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustFr Bigelow FoundationThe Bush FoundationStill Ain'T Satisfied…Mightycause Charitabl…John and Denise Grave…
Headwaters Foundation for JusticeMN70.1× affinity32 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 · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Still Ain'T Satisfied - a Foundation With Attitude (Sas) · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · John and Denise Graves 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 Mn Education Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Takeaction Mn Education Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Takeaction Mn Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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