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Wca Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$718kHealth$396kHousing & Shelter$289kEducation$182kEmployment$140kYouth Development$132kCrime & Legal$93kCivil Rights$82kOther$0
02FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $320k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$30,000
HAVEN HOUSING$30,000
MISSIONS INC$30,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SOURCE$30,000
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC$30,000
PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION$27,000
ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$27,000
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC$20,000
NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$18,000
CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES$18,000
HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$15,000
DAKOTA WOODLANDS$15,000
WAYSIDE RECOVERY CENTER$15,000
SMALL SUMS$15,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$9,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $10k → 5%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS: $12k → 11%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $10k → 11%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $14k → 15%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $50k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $9k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSN: $20k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICES: $20k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%THE LINK: $12k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $10k → 14%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $10k → 14%AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICES: $9k → 14%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $17k → 11%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $10k → 14%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $10k → 14%HOMEWARD BOUNDS INC: $20k → 11%CASA DE ESPERANZA: $20k → 14%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $15k → 14%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30k → 11%SEWA-AIFW INC: $25k → 11%DAILY WORK: $10k → 14%KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $13k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MINNEAOLISST PAUL: $12k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $20k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $15k → 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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$980k · 30 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +66% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2020, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
63

Total granted

$980k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+66%

Still filing today

97%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesHealthEducationEmploymentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • BI
    BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +60%
  • MI
    Missions Inc Programs
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +68%
  • T
    TUBMAN
    2× · 2018–2019 · $47k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMPERSAND FAMILIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +85%
  • LA
    LAO ASSISTANCE CENTER OF MINN
    one grant, 2019 · $27k
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
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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4
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
5
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
6
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
7
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
8
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
Cornerstone Advocacy Service

Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.

Human Services
11
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. 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

88 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. 88 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/88
Grantees still filing
70/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missions Inc Programs: $50,000 · OtherDomestic Abuse Project Inc: $45,000 · OtherMEN AS PEACEMAKERS: $65,000 · OtherMEN AS PEACEMAKERSTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $35,000 · Other+46 more: $742,680 · Other+46 moreAMPERSAND FAMILIES: $50,000 · Human ServicesAMPERSAND FAMILIESYOUTHLINK: $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesPhyllis Wheatley Community…Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $30,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian As…Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $29,200 · Human ServicesFace to Face Health and Co…SEWA-AIFW: $25,000 · Human ServicesSojourner Project Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $20,000 · Human ServicesANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD BOUND INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHANGE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesESPERANZA UNITED: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $20,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVIC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $19,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,500 · Human Services+8 more: $104,500 · Human Services+8 moreTUBMAN: $47,000 · HealthTUBMANPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $43,200 · HealthPLANNED PARE…CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $38,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S D…COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $30,255 · HealthCOMMUNITY DE…ANGEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDA…UNITED FAMILY PRACTICE HEALTH CENTER: $20,000 · HealthUNITED FAMIL…Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $15,000 · HealthMinnesota Te…FIREFLY SISTERHOOD: $12,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthFairview Foundation: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $8,036 · HealthST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $46,000 · EducationST CATHER…DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $43,500 · EducationDUNWOODY …MOVEFWD INC: $40,000 · EducationMOVEFWD I…NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: $28,000 · EducationNORTHWEST…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $20,000 · EducationWALLIN ED…MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $17,000 · EducationMINNESOTA…COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $37,500 · EmploymentHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: $32,000 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $30,000 · EmploymentAT HOME GROUP: $15,000 · EmploymentJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $47,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $19,544 · Housing & ShelterTWIN CITIES HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $65,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $17,500 · Community ImprovementWOMENVENTURE: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$937,680Human Services$520,200Health$253,491Education$194,500Employment$114,500Housing & Shelter$106,544Community Improvement$97,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS: $65,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMissions Inc Programs: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMPERSAND FAMILIES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $47,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $43,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $43,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEFWD INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE: $30,255 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $29,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEWA-AIFW: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOSTARA INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSojourner Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATRIX HOUSING SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARS FOR NEIGHBORS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFETRACK RESOURCES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST SENIOR SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetESPERANZA UNITED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED FAMILY PRACTICE HEALTH CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY SERVIC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING: $19,544 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $18,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…Hardenbergh FoundationMardag FoundationMedica FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…Target FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…
Otto Bremer TrustMN96.7× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Medica Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Target Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation

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 Wca Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wca Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wca Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wca Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 103 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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