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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.
$266k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants
1
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2022.
Health$285kPhilanthropy$145kEducation$85kArts & Culture$80kCivil Rights$70kReligion$50kCommunity Improvement$20kHuman Services$10kOther$340k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
west sidegenderwscolatinxsbuildswell-beingplanning
2021
blackhealinghealth caretransjoicollectivetransformation
2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ACCESS PHILANTHROPY$75,000
- GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL$18,000
02The need
04
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$283k · 3 repeat orgs$802k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +255% since the first grant, against +136% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
19
Total granted
$283k
$802k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+255%
+136%
Still filing today
100%
63%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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 +255%
- ACAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +1100%
- GFGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL2× · 2021–2022 · $68k · revenue -30%
Funded once
- SCSPIRAL COLLECTIVE2× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue -74% · 34% of their budget
- FTFAMILY TREE CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +69%
- 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.
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.
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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. The Organization envisions a prosperous future for Black Minnesota…
Education
2
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective is building a bigger, better, Blacker future in Phoenix, Arizona. We practice cultural organizing among intergenerational Black folks that centers queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated, disabled…
Food & Nutrition
3
Copal
To unite latinxs in minnesota in active grassroots communal democracy that builds racial, gender, social and economic justice across community lines.
Civil Rights
4
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
5
Lavender Rights Project
Lavender Rights Project (LRP) protects Black life by elevating the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black trans and gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We are fighting for the right to exist…
Crime & Legal
6
Black Feminist Future Inc
The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.
Arts & Culture
7
Mental Health Clinicians of Color in Grand Rapids
Our Mental Collective is striving to provide culturally affirming and responsive mental health care resources and support to BIPOC communities and professionals.
Health
8
The Center for Black Health and Equity
Health
9
Ayada Leads
Empowering Women From The African Diaspora to have their voices heard. We are a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports political inclusion and promotes gender equality.
Human Services
10
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa
We are actively replacing systems of oppression with ecosystems of care and safety for all our communities through Black and Brown organizing, prioritizing land and bodily autonomy, and reclaiming our cultural narratives.
Human Services
11
Omowale Project Inc
The Omowale Project is a transformative organization dedicated to fostering repair, wholeness, and systemic change within social justice movements. We recognize that those leading the charge for equity and justice often bear the weight of…
Civil Rights
12
Weaving Wellness and Diversity Management Company
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research 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.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$370,000Health$285,000Philanthropy$145,000Education$85,000Arts & Culture$80,000Civil Rights$70,000Religion$50,000
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 CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROOTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SHIFT COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE FIELDS AT ROOTSPRING ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR POLITICAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HEALING JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPAL ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NAVIGATE ↗
- 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.
The Minneapolis FoundationMN29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Takeaction Mn Education Fund · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Minnesota Voice · The Bush Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SPIRAL COLLECTIVE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~18 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 473439118 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SPIRAL COLLECTIVE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Voices for Racial Justice?
Find your warmest path to Voices for Racial Justice through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines