How much does Win Minnesota give?

Win Minnesota reported 7 itemized grants totaling $1,197,000, out of $1,225,497 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Win Minnesota fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (60%), Public Benefit (14%), Employment (11%).

Who are Win Minnesota's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Alliance for a Better MN ($5.2M), Working America ($1.2M), Minnesota Youth Collective ($802k).

Does Win Minnesota fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Win Minnesota?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, All Hands on Deck Network Inc.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Win Minnesota

WIN Minnesota educates and informs Minnesota residents about the positions of public officials and candidates for office on issues related to health care, the environment, economic justice, and human rights.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 7
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $120,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $600,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 18; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $687k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Win Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	7	$1.2M	43%
FY2023	3	$90k	33%
FY2022	13	$3.1M	31%
FY2021	8	$637k	25%
FY2020	6	$1.9M	0%
FY2019	5	$1.3M	40%
FY2018	18	$2.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$6.6MPublic Benefit$1.5MEmployment$1.2MCommunity Improvement$990kEnvironment$306kYouth Development$114kArts & Culture$70kEducation$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alliance for a Better MN	$5,207,585	6	n/a
Working America	$1,190,453	4	3%
Minnesota Youth Collective	$801,535	6	76%
Alliance for a Better Minnesota	$600,000	1	47%
Citizens for a Working America Inc	$549,580	1	7%
Blueprint Campaigns	$390,000	4	16%
Black Civic Network	$382,000	6	58%
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc	$225,000	1	68%
GrassRoots In Action	$222,000	3	43%
America Votes	$160,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Win Minnesota by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alliance for a Better MN	$5,207,585	6	n/a
Working America	$1,190,453	4	3%
Minnesota Youth Collective	$801,535	6	76%
Alliance for a Better Minnesota	$600,000	1	47%
Citizens for a Working America Inc	$549,580	1	7%
Blueprint Campaigns	$390,000	4	16%
Black Civic Network	$382,000	6	58%
Conservation Minnesota Voter Center Inc	$225,000	1	68%
GrassRoots In Action	$222,000	3	43%
America Votes	$160,000	3	0%
America Votes Action Fund	$150,000	2	n/a
Minnesota Voice	$127,000	4	5%
Repower	$125,000	2	n/a
Copal Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A	$101,815	4	33%
Tioga Fund Inc	$100,000	1	35%
Faith in Minnesota	$88,000	3	5%
American Society of Professional Estimators Inc	$81,250	4	n/a
Rock What Youve Got	$70,000	1	n/a
Takeaction Minnesota	$65,000	2	1%
Leadership Matters Mn	$50,000	1	40%
The Voter Participation Center	$46,784	1	0%
Isuroon	$45,476	1	2%
State Innovation Exchange	$40,241	1	1%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha	$40,000	1	2%
Outfront Minnesota	$34,000	2	15%
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Action Fund	$34,000	2	4%
Legacy Coordination Network Advocat	$30,000	1	n/a
Ab Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Pro-Choice Minnesota	$20,650	2	3%
Civic Ark	$10,000	1	16%

Win Minnesota supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Twin Cities Schools' Telecommunications Group · Minnesota Voice · Women Donors Network Action · North Fund · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The Minneapolis Foundation · Tides Foundation · Laborers International Union of North America - District Council of Mn and Nd · Center for Popular Democracy Inc

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.

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About Win Minnesota

How much does Win Minnesota give?: Win Minnesota reported 7 itemized grants totaling $1,197,000, out of $1,225,497 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Win Minnesota fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (60%), Public Benefit (14%), Employment (11%).
Who are Win Minnesota's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Alliance for a Better MN ($5.2M), Working America ($1.2M), Minnesota Youth Collective ($802k).
Does Win Minnesota fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Win Minnesota?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, All Hands on Deck Network Inc.
Where is Win Minnesota based?: Win Minnesota is based in MN.