How much does Takeaction Mn Education Fund give?

Takeaction Mn Education Fund reported 8 itemized grants totaling $6,923,065, out of $7,241,999 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Takeaction Mn Education Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (81%), Environment (5%), Employment (3%).

Who are Takeaction Mn Education Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Black Visions ($7.9M), Isaiah ($798k), Little Earth Residents Association Inc ($300k).

Does Takeaction Mn Education Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Takeaction Mn Education Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Headwaters Foundation for Justice, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.

Where is Takeaction Mn Education Fund based?

Takeaction Mn Education Fund is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 25
Organizations funded FY2024: 96%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $6.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $6,550,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 25; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 96% of the organizations Takeaction Mn Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$6.9M	75%
FY2024	25	$1.7M	96%
FY2023	8	$1.0M	50%
FY2022	6	$315k	100%
FY2020	6	$317k	33%
FY2019	10	$644k	70%
FY2018	5	$355k	80%
FY2017	2	$379k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Black Visions	$7,875,000	2	33%
Isaiah	$797,949	6	5%
Little Earth Residents Association Inc	$300,000	2	8%
Mn350	$206,224	3	9%
Arab Americans for Progress	$174,565	1	n/a
Access Philanthropy Charities	$160,000	3	6%
Community Power	$160,000	2	6%
The Awood Center	$150,000	2	17%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$125,000	2	12%
Bryant Neighborhood Organization	$100,000	1	53%

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All grantees of Takeaction Mn Education Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Black Visions	$7,875,000	2	33%
Isaiah	$797,949	6	5%
Little Earth Residents Association Inc	$300,000	2	8%
Mn350	$206,224	3	9%
Arab Americans for Progress	$174,565	1	n/a
Access Philanthropy Charities	$160,000	3	6%
Community Power	$160,000	2	6%
The Awood Center	$150,000	2	17%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$125,000	2	12%
Bryant Neighborhood Organization	$100,000	1	53%
Outfront Minnesota Community Services	$95,000	1	9%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha	$85,000	4	2%
White Earth Land Recovery Project	$80,000	1	6%
Tending the Soil Mn	$75,000	1	n/a
The Bloc Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
Gender Justice	$75,000	1	7%
Neighborhoods Organizing for Change	$60,000	1	n/a
Alliance for a Just Society	$52,500	2	0%
Takeaction Minnesota	$50,000	1	1%
Juxtaposition Arts Inc	$46,000	3	1%
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund	$43,750	2	15%
Family Tree Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Southside Harm Reduction Services	$35,000	2	2%
Minnesota Training Partnership Inc	$30,000	1	6%
Yes 4 Minneapolis Education Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
1 Day at a Time	$25,000	1	3%
SWOP Minneapolis	$25,000	1	20%
Dakota Child and Family Clinic	$25,000	1	4%
612 Mash	$25,000	2	n/a
Land Stewardship Project	$24,000	2	1%
Hmong American Partnership	$15,000	1	0%
African Career Education & Resorces	$15,000	1	n/a
Mn Wrongfully Convicted Judicial Reform	$12,500	1	n/a
Youthlink	$10,000	1	0%
Mn Teen Activists	$10,000	1	n/a
Spiral Collective	$10,000	2	17%
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities	$10,000	1	0%
Legal Rights Center	$10,000	1	0%
George Floyd Global Memorial	$10,000	2	4%
Avivo	$10,000	1	0%
African Career Education & Resources In	$10,000	2	n/a
Wildflyer Coffee	$10,000	1	1%
Sisters Camelot	$10,000	1	17%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice	$10,000	1	1%
We Win Institute Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Opencollective Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Circle of Discipline Inc	$10,000	1	1%
The Bridge for Youth	$10,000	1	0%
Pillsbury United Communities	$10,000	1	0%
Dont Shoot Guns Shoot Hoops	$10,000	1	4%
Revolution Dance Works	$10,000	1	8%
Jewish Community Action	$8,000	2	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($375k), not named here.

Takeaction Mn Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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 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

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.

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About Takeaction Mn Education Fund

How much does Takeaction Mn Education Fund give?: Takeaction Mn Education Fund reported 8 itemized grants totaling $6,923,065, out of $7,241,999 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Takeaction Mn Education Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (81%), Environment (5%), Employment (3%).
Who are Takeaction Mn Education Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Black Visions ($7.9M), Isaiah ($798k), Little Earth Residents Association Inc ($300k).
Does Takeaction Mn Education Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Takeaction Mn Education Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Headwaters Foundation for Justice, The Minneapolis Foundation, The McKnight Foundation.
Where is Takeaction Mn Education Fund based?: Takeaction Mn Education Fund is based in MN.