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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
Summit Academy OIC$200,000
Keystone Community Services$200,000
Dougherty Family College$200,000
Mental Health Resources$175,000
BARR Center$160,000
Southside Harm Reduction Services$150,000
Volunteer Lawyers Network$150,000
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis$150,000
American Indian OIC Inc$150,000
Centro Tyrone Guzman$125,000
Wallin Education Partners$125,000
Teen Hope Ministries$125,000
Augsburg University$125,000
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 (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 its 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%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $150k → 11%The Link: $124k → 11%Ujamaa Place: $200k → 14%Neighborhood Development Center: $150k → 14%Young Men's Christian Association of North: $100k → 11%Neighborhood Development Center: $100k → 14%Neighborhood Development Center Inc: $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%Family Partnership: $125k → 11%St Mary's Health Clinics: $100k → 14%Centro Tyrone Guzman: $125k → 11%Project for Pride in Living: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

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

+29%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
8
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
9
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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10
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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11
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
12
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Community Health Services Inc Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
48/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationBARR CENTER: $160,000 · EducationMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $225,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD: $225,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARR CENTER: $160,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMONTESSORI AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDCARE CENTER INCORPORATED: $160,000 over 1y, 21% 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 budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LINK: $124,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCSJ Ministries Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRS EDEN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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
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 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

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 Constellation Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Constellation Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.

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

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