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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 FY2022
1
States reached
$75k
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, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$285kRecreation & Sports$175kPhilanthropy$145kCivil Rights$118kCommunity Improvement$82kCrime & Legal$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $93,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $265,539 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $172,539 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
ACCESS PHILANTHROPY$75,000
GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL$18,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISUROON: $10k → 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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 3 repeat orgs$802k to everyone else

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

-30%
-9%

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.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthEducationCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AP
    ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue -67%
  • AC
    AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +67%
  • GF
    GEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $68k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • SC
    SPIRAL COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue -53% · 34% of their budget
  • FT
    Family Tree Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -9%
  • QV
    QUINONES VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
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 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
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
3
The Conversationalist
—
4
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
5
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation

Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.

Philanthropy
6
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Nexus Community Partners

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.

Philanthropy
8
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
9
Trans Women of Color Healing Project

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…

Human Services
10
United Women of the Horn

United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…

Civil Rights
11
Health in Partnership

Health in Partnership transforms the field of public health to center health equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.

Health
12
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUINONES VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE: $75,000 · OtherQUINONES VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCEIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEANAI NA DEITHE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherLEANAI NA DEITHE COMMUNITY CENTERTHE SHIFT COOPERATIVE: $50,000 · OtherTHE SHIFT COOPERATIVEBLACK TABLE ARTS: $30,000 · OtherBLACK TABLE ARTSST THERESA S PARISH-CACINA: $30,000 · OtherST THERESA S PARISH-CACINAWomen For Political Action Change Education & Advo: $30,000 · OtherWomen For Political Action Change Educ…JOI UNLIMITED: $25,000 · OtherJOI UNLIMITEDWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · OtherWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION+1 more: $10,000 · OtherSPIRAL COLLECTIVE: $105,000 · HealthSPIRAL COLLECTIVEFamily Tree Inc: $100,000 · HealthFamily Tree IncHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $50,000 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RE…Healing Justice Foundation: $30,000 · HealthHealing Justice FoundationACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $145,000 · PhilanthropyACCESS PHILANTH…AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN: $70,000 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · EducationGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL: $68,000 · Arts & CultureNative American Community Development Institute: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $20,000 · Civil RightsThe Fields Retreat and Learning Center: $50,000 · Religion
Other$370,000Health$285,000Philanthropy$145,000Education$85,000Arts & Culture$80,000Civil Rights$70,000Religion$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $145,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSPIRAL COLLECTIVE: $105,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN: $70,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD GLOBAL MEMORIAL: $68,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLACKROOTS ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Fields Retreat and Learning Center: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SHIFT COOPERATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetHealing Justice Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIsuroon: $10,000 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.

Headwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…Women's Foundation of…The McKnight Foundati…Takeaction Mn Educati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Minnesota VoiceTides FoundationThe Bush FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundYouthprise
Headwaters Foundation for JusticeMN30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Voices for Racial Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Voices for Racial Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $327k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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