· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $30,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $322,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $292,067 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Speaking Out Collective | $30,525 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Our mission is to assist survivors and their children in learning to overcome the cycle of physical, sexual, mental, and emotional health.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Breaking the isolation of domestic and sexual violence.
To end domestic violence in the capital area through serving victims of domestic violence, educating the public about domestic violence, and working to eliminate economic, social and cultural conditions and attitudes that contribute to…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
With wrap-around services, dove house seeks to address the needs of victimes of domestic violence, sexual assaultm and general crime in jefferson county as they navigate the many systems required to move from being victims to surviving and…
Aid victims of domestic violence/assualt
Safe avenues mission is to provide advocacy, parenting time services, and emergency shelter to victims of domestic and sexual violence.
Provide education, intervention and advocacy to those affected by relationship abuse with a holistic approach and anti-oppression focus.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breaking Free. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Advocacy Service ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF NATIONS ↗
- Who funds PHUMULANI ↗
- Who funds Speaking Out Collective ↗
- Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
- Who funds Asian Women United of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA UNITED ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds Sojourner Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SOMEPLACE SAFE ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THINKSELF INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKING FREE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Minneapolis Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Edina Realty Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Wca Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family 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 Violence Free Minnesota 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.
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.
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