How much does The Constellation Fund give?

The Constellation Fund reported 26 grants totaling $3,507,086 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Constellation Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Health (18%), Education (15%).

Who are The Constellation Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Way to Grow ($1.2M), Project for Pride in Living Inc ($1.0M), University of St Thomas ($1.0M).

Does The Constellation Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Constellation Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.

Where is The Constellation Fund based?

The Constellation Fund is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

The Constellation Fund

Fight poverty in the Twin Cities by raising the living standards of individuals living below the poverty line in our seven-county metropolitan area.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $125,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $232,086
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 43; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $8.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Constellation Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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	26	$3.5M	19%
FY2024	27	$3.6M	7%
FY2023	29	$3.5M	21%
FY2022	27	$4.5M	11%
FY2021	29	$2.9M	38%
FY2020	43	$2.0M	93%
FY2019	3	$244k	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, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$5.7MHealth$3.7MEducation$3.0MEmployment$2.6MYouth Development$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$859kFood & Nutrition$543kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Way to Grow	$1,182,086	6	9%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$1,010,000	6	1%
University of St Thomas	$1,000,000	6	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$850,000	5	2%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis	$845,000	6	2%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$825,000	4	0%
Mental Health Resources Inc	$755,433	5	1%
Neighborhood Development Center Inc	$750,000	4	4%
Annex Teen Clinic Inc	$735,000	6	5%
Wallin Education Partners	$675,000	5	2%

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All grantees of The Constellation Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Way to Grow	$1,182,086	6	9%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$1,010,000	6	1%
University of St Thomas	$1,000,000	6	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$850,000	5	2%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis	$845,000	6	2%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$825,000	4	0%
Mental Health Resources Inc	$755,433	5	1%
Neighborhood Development Center Inc	$750,000	4	4%
Annex Teen Clinic Inc	$735,000	6	5%
Wallin Education Partners	$675,000	5	2%
Jobs Foundation	$650,000	5	4%
Oasis for Youth	$592,500	7	14%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$585,000	6	5%
Emerge Community Development	$570,000	5	2%
Keystone Community Services	$550,000	3	2%
The Banyan Foundation	$550,000	5	15%
Neighborhood Healthsource	$525,000	5	3%
People Responding in Social Ministry	$490,230	4	4%
Teen Hope Ministries	$475,000	4	94%
Ostara Initiative	$450,000	6	14%
Southside Harm Reduction Services	$410,000	4	7%
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd	$400,000	3	6%
Alliance Housing Inc	$387,500	4	6%
Southside Family Nurturing Center	$375,000	4	18%
Ujamaa Place	$370,000	3	7%
30000 Feet	$305,000	4	8%
Family Tree Inc	$280,000	3	3%
Augsburg University	$275,000	3	0%
Neighborhood House	$270,000	3	2%
Achieve Twin Cities	$250,000	2	3%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota	$250,000	3	0%
The Family Partnership	$225,000	2	1%
Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf Dba Open Cupboard	$225,000	1	1%
Hennepin Health Foundation	$210,000	3	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$180,000	2	0%
Barr Center	$160,000	1	1%
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated	$160,000	1	21%
Ain Dah Yung (Our Home) Center	$150,000	2	2%
Division of Indian Work	$150,000	2	3%
American Indian Oic	$150,000	1	2%
The Link	$124,000	1	1%
Ready Set Smile Pa	$100,000	1	8%
CSJ Ministries Foundation	$100,000	1	12%
Rs Eden	$100,000	1	1%
Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul	$100,000	1	2%
Great Mn Schools	$100,000	1	2%
City of Lakes Community Land Trust	$60,000	1	2%
People Serving People Inc	$25,000	1	0%
West Side Community Health Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Building Blocks of Islam	$10,000	1	2%
Muslim American Society of Minnesota	$10,000	1	n/a
St Louis Park Emergency Program Inc	$10,000	1	0%
New Creation Baptist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Agate Housing & Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Women's Advocates Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative	$10,000	1	0%
Solid Ground	$10,000	1	0%
The Bridge for Youth	$10,000	1	0%
St Marys Health Clinics	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Mediation & Restorative Servic Es Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Salvation Army	$10,000	1	n/a
Our Saviour's Community Services	$10,000	1	0%
Lee Carlson Center for Mental Health & Well-Being	$10,000	1	0%
Al-Maa'uun	$9,000	1	0%
360 Communities	$9,000	1	0%
White Bear Area Food Shelf	$7,700	1	n/a
Elpis Enterprises	$5,000	1	1%
West African Family & Community Services - Food Shelf	$5,000	1	n/a
The Open Door	$5,000	1	0%
Every Meal	$5,000	1	n/a

The Constellation Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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 63.

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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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN84.8× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Medica Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Target 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 The Constellation Fund

How much does The Constellation Fund give?: The Constellation Fund reported 26 grants totaling $3,507,086 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Constellation Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Health (18%), Education (15%).
Who are The Constellation Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Way to Grow ($1.2M), Project for Pride in Living Inc ($1.0M), University of St Thomas ($1.0M).
Does The Constellation Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Constellation Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is The Constellation Fund based?: The Constellation Fund is based in MN.