· Public charity
Voices for Racial Justice
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE works to advance racial, cultural, social and economic justice in minnesota through organizer and leadership training, policy research and strategic convening work.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $93,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $265,539 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,539 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 · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCESS PHILANTHROPY | $75,000 |
| GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL | $18,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- APACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES3× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +31%
- ACAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +67%
- GFGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL2× · 2021–2022 · $68k · revenue -30%
Funded once
- SCSPIRAL COLLECTIVE2× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue -53% · 34% of their budget
- FTFamily Tree Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -9%
- QVQUINONES VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCEone grant, 2021 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
The Organization's mission is to create a radical future for Black Minnesotans by advancing Black-Centered policies and solutions that actualize true liberation.
Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.
We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…
The Trans Women of Color Healing Project mission is to combat the erasure of Trans peoples' lives, narratives, and contributions to society. We speak truth to power and also uplift the stories that center TWOC people, our families, our…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.
To unite latinxs in minnesota in active grassroots communal democracy that builds racial, gender, social and economic justice across community lines.
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…
Promote civic engagement by the African American community in Minneapolis, MN and surrounding communities. The goal of Lights On is to create a sense of agency within the community by educating members about the institutions that affect…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the most unlike its peers is George Floyd Global Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SPIRAL COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds BLACKROOTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds The Fields Retreat and Learning Center ↗
- Who funds THE SHIFT COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds Healing Justice Foundation ↗
- Who funds Women For Political Action Change Education & Advo ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A ↗
- Who funds UNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Native American Community Development Institute ↗
- Who funds Isuroon ↗
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: Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The McKnight Foundation · Takeaction Mn Education Fund · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Voice · Tides Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Youthprise
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 Voices for Racial Justice 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.