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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$836kHuman Services$271kYouth Development$211kHousing & Shelter$210kCommunity Improvement$188kFood & Nutrition$119kPhilanthropy$63kInternational$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING$30,000
BUILD WEALTH MN INC$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
COMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC$10,000
ITASCA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
FERGUS FALLS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
HEARTS & HAMMERS$10,000
NEW PATHWAYS INC$10,000
LIFE HOUSE$10,000
THE LINK$10,000
EVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 14%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $10k → 7%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $5k → 11%PROJECT LEGACY: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD: $3k → 11%FAMILY RISE TOGETHER: $15k → 15%ISANTI COUNTY BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON: $5k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15k → 11%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $10k → 14%EXODUS LENDING: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE ROCHESTER: $4k → 9%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $5k → 11%MANKATO YOUTH PLACE: $5k → 15%THE LINK: $10k → 11%THE LINK: $5k → 11%EXODUS LENDING: $5k → 14%PREPARE & PROSPER: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $10k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 14%PEACE HOUSE COMMUNITY: $10k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

+52%
+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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +71%
  • 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

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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.

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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…

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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."

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Roof Community Housing; 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.
04the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/111
Grantees still filing
85/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…THE LINK: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINKPeace House Community: $15,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Com…FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR …Prepare and Prosper: $15,000 · Human ServicesPrepare and Pro…FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TO…Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $10,271 · Human ServicesSolid Ground: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEGACY: $10,000 · Human ServicesFamily Pathways: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $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 CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BEMIDJI AREA: $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 & NutritionBEMIDJI COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN DOOR: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE YES NETWORK: $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 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,204,139Human Services$256,995Education$133,692Youth Development$86,000Community Improvement$81,190Food & Nutrition$77,331Philanthropy$64,686

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $64,101 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $51,066 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuild Wealth MN Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $45,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LANDING MN: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Pathways Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetCARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE LINK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJefferson Elementary PTA: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDU NORD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMY NEIGHBOR TO LOVE COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPeace House Community: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPrepare and Prosper: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetSolid Ground: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEGACY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFamily Pathways: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetItasca County Habitat for Humanity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EAGAN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHFH OF DOUGLAS COUNTY MINNESOTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAUL BUNYAN ARBORETUM: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMardag FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…CommunitygivingGreater Twin Cities U…Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…The Richard M Schulze…Allina Health System
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 354 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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