· Private foundation
The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE AFFINITY PLUS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILD WEALTH MN INC | $30,000 |
| ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING | $30,000 |
| THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE LANDING MN INC | $10,000 |
| HEARTS & HAMMERS | $10,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PATHWAYS | $10,000 |
| LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC | $10,000 |
| EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NEW PATHWAYS INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 84% of those 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 +68% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND2× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +91%
- MSMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +79%
- TLTHE LANDING MN3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- G(GLOBALGIVING (FOR THE UKRAINE CRISIS RELIEF FUND)one grant, 2022 · $60k
- FFFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALINGone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
- KCKeystone Community Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $23k · revenue +41%
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing and the most unlike its peers is Wings Financial Foundation. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
111 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. 111 of the 354 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Build Wealth MN Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LANDING MN ↗
- Who funds ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds New Pathways Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION ↗
- Who funds Peace House Community ↗
- Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
- Who funds DU NORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds Jefferson Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds MY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Mardag Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Communitygiving · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Allina Health System
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 The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation 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.
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