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Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group

The corporation is organized and will be operated exclusively for "charitable, scientific and educational and "social welfare" purposes within the meaning of sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4), respectively, of the internal revenue code.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Public Benefit$651kCivil Rights$556kEmployment$523kPhilanthropy$452kArts & Culture$311kReligion$224kEducation$90kCommunity Improvement$80kHuman Services$50kOther$743k
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $1,267,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,342,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $629k
$42,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION$90,000
CENTER FOR RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY$60,500
CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE$60,000
BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE$60,000
MINNESOTA BLACK COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION$58,000
EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION (EAT)$50,000
THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY$50,000
ONE PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN$50,000
JANE ADDAMS SENIORS SENIOR CAUCUS$50,000
URBAN GATEWAYS$50,000
UNITED WORKING FAMILIES$50,000
AWOOD CENTER$42,000
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA (CTUL)$42,000
UNIDOS MN$42,000
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE$42,000
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION (EAT): $50k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
NM
TN
SC
GA
FL

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 13 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$2.4M
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $981k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • VF
    VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $299k · revenue +26%
  • RT
    REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR
    6× · 2020–2025 · $224k · revenue +63%
  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $224k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue +42%
  • MB
    MINNESOTA BLACK COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $41k
  • AF
    Alliance for a Better Minnesotagraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +47%

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 Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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5
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Freedom Action Now

Freedom action now, inc. (fan) is a radical queer black and southeast asian feminist organization creating change for the most impacted communities in wisconsin through voter education, leadership development, community organizing, and…

Civil Rights
8
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
9
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
10
Ayada Leads

Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

Human Services
11
United for a Fair Economy Inc

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission

Social Science
12
African American Leadership Forum

The Organization's mission is to create a radical future for Black Minnesotans by advancing Black-Centered policies and solutions that actualize true liberation.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorofchangeorg and the most unlike its peers is Global Entrepreneurship Week Minnesota. 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 backsteadyLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Senior Support ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipMuslim Community Organizati…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Government Accountability R…
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 15 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%35%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr18%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%28%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr18%2%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/53
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,936

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

50 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. 50 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
26/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIDOS MN — $177,210 · OtherUNIDOS MNPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $70,000 · OtherPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INCCENTER FOR RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY — $60,500 · OtherCENTER FOR RACIAL AND GENDER …THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY — $50,000 · OtherONE Peoples Campaign — $50,000 · OtherUNITED WORKING FAMILIES — $50,000 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $47,187 · OtherMINNESOTA BLACK COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $41,300 · OtherAction Now — $40,000 · OtherAlliance for a Better Minnesota — $40,000 · OtherEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION — $50,000 · Other+15 more — $285,890 · Other+15 moreTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $275,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTAWIN MINNESOTA — $200,000 · Public BenefitWIN MINNESOTATAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $174,500 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCAT…+1 more — $1,437 · Public BenefitCOPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $147,043 · Civil RightsCOPAL COMMUNIDADE…ILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC — $90,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS IMMIGRAN…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $60,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Me…BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE — $60,000 · Civil RightsBLACKROOTS ALLIAN…Jane Addams Seniors in Action — $50,000 · Civil RightsJane Addams Senio…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $45,750 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES …COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $28,000 · Civil RightsChicago Votes — $25,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN MINNESOTA — $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $25,000 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $299,000 · EmploymentVOICES FOR RACIA…CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $224,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DE TRABAJ…NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $368,021 · PhilanthropyNEXUS COMMUNI…Minnesota Black Collective Foundation — $58,000 · PhilanthropyMinnesota Bla…+3 more — $26,250 · Philanthropy+3 moreTHE AWOOD CENTER — $196,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AWOOD…URBAN GATEWAYS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureURBAN GAT…Chicago Filmmakers — $40,000 · Arts & CultureChicago F…BLACK IN APPALACHIA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK IN …REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $224,000 · Religion
Other$962,087Public Benefit$650,937Civil Rights$555,793Employment$523,000Philanthropy$452,271Arts & Culture$311,000Religion$224,000

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 budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $368,021 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $299,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $275,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR — $224,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $224,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWIN MINNESOTA — $200,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER — $196,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNIDOS MN — $177,210 over 5y, 37% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $174,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A — $147,043 over 5y, 21% of budgetILLINOIS IMMIGRANT ACTION INC — $90,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMinnesota Black Collective Foundation — $58,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetONE Peoples Campaign — $50,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $47,187 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $45,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minnesota — $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetChicago Filmmakers — $40,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $28,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLACK IN APPALACHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $24,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $20,890 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFairVote Minnesota — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC — $9,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $7,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $4,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4 — $1,437 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Chicago Instructional…All Hands on Deck Net…Instructional Telecom…Headwaters Foundation…New Venture FundTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Sixteen Thirty FundCrossroads Fund IncThe McKnight Foundati…Field Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …
Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation IncCO59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Crossroads Fund Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc

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 Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Chainless Change Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 53 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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