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West Metro Fire Rescue District Firefighters Relief Association

To provide retirement benefits to volunteer firefighters.

$329k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Benefit$588kPublic Safety & Disaster$219kHuman Services$27kRecreation & Sports$26kPhilanthropy$12kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $223,680, the rows itemized in this filing. The $329,180 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $178k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West Metro Fire Department$111,800
City of Crystal$66,250
City of New Hope$14,130
YMCA New Hope$10,000
Special Olympics$8,000
Robbinsdale Crystal Little League$7,500
Africa Fire Mission$6,000
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Crescent Cove: $10k → 11%YMCA New Hope: $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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$814k · 5 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$814k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-5%

Still filing today

40%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CO
    City of Crystal
    3× · 2022–2024 · $322k
  • CO
    City of New Hope
    4× · 2021–2024 · $266k
  • WM
    West Metro Fire Department
    2× · 2023–2024 · $193k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • PA
    PIM ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -5%
  • CC
    CRESCENT COVEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +29%
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
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
2
Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis

Always with the goal of working toward a safer, more livable city, our mission is to improve working conditions for our members - police officers who work in minneapolis - and to make certain their rights are protected.

—
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
4
North Memorial Health Care Dba North Memorial Health

Empowering our patients to achieve their best health.

Health
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
6
Qm Quality Matters Inc

To promote and improve the quality of online education and student learning through: 1. development of research-supported, best (continued on schedule o) practice-based quality standards and appropriate evaluation tools and procedures. 2.…

Education
7
Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.

—
8
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
9
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

—
10
Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc

The mission of the professional fire fighters of wisconsin charitable foundation is to champion community risk reduction initiatives; promote fire safety and prevention; and deliver meaningful support to burn survivors, fire fighters and…

Human Services
11
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
12
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Africa Fire Mission. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Crystal: $321,900 · OtherCity of CrystalCity of New Hope: $266,290 · OtherCity of New HopeWest Metro Fire Department: $193,050 · OtherWest Metro Fire Department+3 more: $39,500 · OtherCRESCENT COVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesAFRICA FIRE MISSION: $15,700 · InternationalPIM ARTS HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $7,500 · Food & NutritionMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $6,600 · Health
Other$820,740Human Services$20,000International$15,700Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,000Food & Nutrition$7,500Health$6,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle League Baseball Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetAFRICA FIRE MISSION: $15,700 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPIM ARTS HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCGREGOR FIRE DEPARTMENT RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $6,600 over 1y, 1.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 West Metro Fire Rescue District Firefighters Relief Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Metro Fire Rescue District Firefighters Relief Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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    Find your warmest path to West Metro Fire Rescue District Firefighters Relief Association 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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