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The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$426k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $310k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $10k → 5%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD: $15k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $5k → 11%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 7%ISANTI COUNTY BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD: $3k → 11%FAMILY RISE TOGETHER: $15k → 15%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15k → 11%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 9%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER: $4k → 9%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $5k → 11%EXODUS LENDING: $10k → 14%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE: $5k → 15%THE LINK: $10k → 11%PREPARE & PROSPER: $5k → 14%THE LINK: $5k → 11%EXODUS LENDING: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%PEACE HOUSE COMMUNITY: $10k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $5k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 14%FACE TO FACE: $5k → 14%PEACE HOUSE COMMUNITY: $5k → 11%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $10k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 14%EXODUS LENDING: $5k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4k → 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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$770k · 36 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
287

Total granted

$770k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+37%

Still filing today

56%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +91%
  • MS
    MINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +79%
  • TL
    THE LANDING MN
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • G(
    GLOBALGIVING (FOR THE UKRAINE CRISIS RELIEF FUND)
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • FF
    FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • KC
    Keystone Community Servicesgraduated
    one 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.

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 Business Partnership

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…

2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

3
African Development Center

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

Human Services
4
United Way of Ne 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.

5
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
6
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

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.

Community Improvement
7
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

8
Veap Inc

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."

9
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

11
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
12
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.

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Music EnsemblesFirefighter Pension Associa…Collegiate Greek Housing Co…Accessible Housing With Sup…Youth Sports LeaguesLabor UnionsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Neighborhood Revitalization…Regional Economic Developme…Community Arts & Cultural O…
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/121
the rest of the field
13%
2,527/20,205

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

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/111
Grantees still filing
84/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $63,900 · OtherGLOBALGIVING (FOR THE UKRAINE CRISIS RELIEF FUND) — $59,627 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $45,000 · Other+141 more — $1,035,612 · Other+141 moreNew Pathways Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesNew Pathways In…EXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesEXODUS FINANCIA…COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $18,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTIO…Peace House Community — $15,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Com…Prepare and Prosper — $15,000 · Human ServicesPrepare and Pro…FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS — $15,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR …FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TO…THE LINK — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $10,271 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEGACY — $10,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFamily Pathways — $10,000 · Human ServicesSolid Ground — $10,000 · Human Services+12 more — $58,524 · Human Services+12 moreMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS — $64,101 · EducationBuild Wealth MN Inc — $45,000 · EducationTHE EAGAN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $9,591 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas — $5,000 · EducationLIFE HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie Cart — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementWEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION — $15,166 · Community ImprovementDU NORD FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council — $11,024 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $10,000 · Community Improvement360 Communities — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $51,066 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INC — $6,265 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN DOOR — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE YES NETWORK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionBEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $9,686 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BEMIDJI AREA — $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING — $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,204,139Human Services$256,995Education$133,692Youth Development$86,000Community Improvement$81,190Food & Nutrition$77,331Philanthropy$64,686

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS — $64,101 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $51,066 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $45,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBuild Wealth MN Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LANDING MN — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Pathways Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $23,357 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cookie Cart — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEXODUS FINANCIAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $18,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc — $17,907 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION — $15,166 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeace House Community — $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPrepare and Prosper — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDU NORD FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJefferson Elementary PTA — $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE LINK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBESTPREP — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLake Street Council — $11,024 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $10,271 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEGACY — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHFH OF DOUGLAS COUNTY MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Pathways — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EAGAN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetItasca County Habitat for Humanity — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSolid Ground — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $9,686 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $9,591 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC — $6,265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL BUNYAN ARBORETUM — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lift Garage — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO AVENUE FIRE ARTS CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN98.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation 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 354 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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