· Public charity
West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc
Empowering people while providing services and resources that impact individuals and communities.
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 9 grants below total $246,255 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,860,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,614,533 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS | $93,197 |
| MINNESOTA VALLEY ACTION COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $34,058 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC | $24,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $17,000 |
| THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $14,000 |
| EMERGE | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH | $7,000 |
| MN8 | $6,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- MHMinnesota Housing Finance Agency3× · 2022–2024 · $922k
- MVMINNESOTA VALLEY ACTION COUNCIL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +5%
- NDNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -41%
Funded once
- ACANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
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.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
To engage the entire community to listen to and partner with low-income individuals and families to expand their opportunities to move out of economic poverty and toward prosperity.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Working in partnership with the community to empower residents to improve their physical, social and economic well-being. we work to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
To strengthen the capacity of its member agencies to achieve their poverty-fighting missions, through influential advocacy, collaboration, and training.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Invest in people experiencing poverty to build general prosperity.
Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.
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…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Three Rivers Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Development Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 MINNESOTA VALLEY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES AND PRAIRIES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MN8 ↗
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 Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 West Central Minnesota Communities Action Inc 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.