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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$232k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Human Services$5.7MHealth$3.7MEducation$3.0MEmployment$2.6MYouth Development$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$859kFood & Nutrition$543kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Way to Grow$232,086
Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf$225,000
Keystone Community Services$200,000
Summit Academy OIC$200,000
Dougherty Family College$200,000
Mental Health Resources$175,000
BARR Center$160,000
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis$150,000
American Indian OIC Inc$150,000
Southside Harm Reduction Services$150,000
Volunteer Lawyers Network$150,000
Teen Hope Ministries$125,000
Project for Pride in Living$125,000
Annex Teen Clinic$125,000
Centro Tyrone Guzman$125,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%YWCA of St Paul: $100k → 14%Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota: $100k → 14%Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota: $75k → 14%YMCA of the North: $400k → 11%Lutheran Social Services: $75k → 14%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $175k → 11%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $400k → 14%Ujamaa Place: $200k → 14%The Link: $124k → 11%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $150k → 11%Neighborhood Development Center: $150k → 14%Young Men's Christian Association of North: $100k → 11%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $100k → 14%Neighborhood Development Center: $100k → 14%Project for Pride in Living: $300k → 11%Ujamaa Place: $85k → 14%Project for Pride in Living: $200k → 11%Ujamaa Place: $85k → 14%Ain Dah Yung Center: $75k → 14%Ain Dah Yung Center: $75k → 14%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $150k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $150k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $125k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $125k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $125k → 11%St Mary's Health Clinics: $100k → 14%Family Partnership: $125k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $125k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $110k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $100k → 11%Family Partnership: $100k → 11%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $75k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $300k → 11%PRISM: $185k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $150k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $150k → 11%PRISM: $105k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $100k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $85k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $60k → 11%Way to Grow: $400k → 11%Way to Grow: $232k → 11%Way to Grow: $200k → 11%Way to Grow: $150k → 11%Way to Grow: $100k → 11%Way to Grow: $100k → 11%People Responding in Social Ministry: $150k → 11%Division of Indian Work: $100k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 36 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
29

Total granted

$19M
$865k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $735k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PF
    PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $845k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • MA
    MONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue +27%
  • TL
    THE LINK
    one grant, 2021 · $124k · revenue +23%
  • CM
    CSJ Ministries Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%

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…

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2
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
3
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
4
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
5
African Development Center

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

Human Services
6
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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7
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
8
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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9
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
10
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
11
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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12
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Serving People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Csj Ministries 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant & Ethnic Communit…Disability Employment Servi…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Health Care Netwo…Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth & Family Support Serv…Business Advocacy Organizat…Professional Trade Associat…Pediatric Health Care AccessYouth & Family Support Serv…
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr13%26%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
14%
1,903/13,195

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

66 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. 66 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
48/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAY TO GROW — $1,182,086 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $1,010,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INCJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $845,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF …YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $825,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE …NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $750,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $585,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $490,230 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRYUJAMAA PLACE — $370,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $250,000 · Human Services+11 more — $893,000 · Human Services+11 moreMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $755,433 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INCOASIS FOR YOUTH — $592,500 · OtherOASIS FOR YOUTHEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $570,000 · OtherEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTKeystone Community Services — $550,000 · OtherKeystone Community ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE — $525,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCEVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $400,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LT…CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD — $225,000 · OtherJOBS FOUNDATION — $650,000 · OtherJOBS FOUNDATIONALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $387,500 · OtherALLIANCE HOUSING INC+15 more — $337,700 · Other+15 moreUniversity of St Thomas — $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of St Th…SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $850,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OICWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $675,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION PA…AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $275,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $180,000 · EducationMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED — $160,000 · EducationBARR CENTER — $160,000 · Education+1 more — $100,000 · EducationAnnex Teen Clinic Inc — $735,000 · HealthAnnex Tee…SOUTHSIDE HARM REDUCTION SERVICES — $410,000 · HealthSOUTHSIDE…Family Tree Inc — $280,000 · HealthFamily Tr…HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $210,000 · HealthHENNEPIN …READY SET SMILE PA — $100,000 · HealthREADY SET…+2 more — $20,000 · HealthTEEN HOPE MINISTRIES — $475,000 · Youth Development30000 Feet — $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentOSTARA INITIATIVE — $450,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $375,000 · Crime & LegalRS EDEN — $100,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Banyan Foundation — $550,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $270,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $19,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$7,200,316Other$4,993,133Education$3,400,000Health$1,755,000Youth Development$1,030,000Crime & Legal$935,000Community Improvement$839,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAY TO GROW — $1,182,086 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $1,010,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $1,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $850,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS — $845,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $825,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $755,433 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $750,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetAnnex Teen Clinic Inc — $735,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $675,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetJOBS FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH — $592,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $585,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetEMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $570,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $550,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $550,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE — $525,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $490,230 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTEEN HOPE MINISTRIES — $475,000 over 4y, 94% of budgetOSTARA INITIATIVE — $450,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetSOUTHSIDE HARM REDUCTION SERVICES — $410,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $400,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $387,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER — $375,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE — $370,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budget30000 Feet — $305,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetFamily Tree Inc — $280,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $270,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD — $225,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $225,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED — $160,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBARR CENTER — $160,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LINK — $124,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCSJ Ministries Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA — $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetRS EDEN — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCITY OF LAKES COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Greater Twin Cities U…The Richard M Schulze…Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Walser FoundationMedica FoundationXcel Energy FoundationAndersen Corporate Fo…Target Foundation
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

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 Constellation Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 70 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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