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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$6.6MPublic Benefit$1.5MEmployment$1.2MCommunity Improvement$990kEnvironment$306kYouth Development$114kArts & Culture$70kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,197,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,225,497 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,497 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 $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
  • $250k+2 grants · $885k
$120,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$687k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alliance for a Better Minnesota$600,000
Working America$285,000
America Votes$150,000
Minnesota Youth Collective$120,000
Legacy Coordination Network Advocat$30,000
Civic Ark$10,000
Minnesota Voice$2,000
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 (FY21–21, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Isuroon: $45k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 12 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +187%
  • BC
    BLUEPRINT CAMPAIGNS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $390k · revenue +141%
  • BC
    BLACK CIVIC NETWORK
    6× · 2018–2023 · $382k · revenue +160% · 58% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $550k · revenue -90%
  • CM
    CONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $225k · revenue +360% · 68% of their budget
  • AV
    AMERICA VOTES ACTION FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $150k
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
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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2
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
3
League of Women Voters of Minnesota Educ

The league of women voters minnesota a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to civic engagement, with a mission to empower voters and defend democracy. membership is open to all genders age 16 and up. through our partnership with…

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4
Minnesota Action Network Inc

To create, encourage, and promote center right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong policies in the state of MN, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which…

Public Benefit
5
FairVote Minnesota Foundation

FairVote Minnesota Foundation promotes better democracy through improving the voting system across the state. We provide research and education about the effects our voting system has on the quality of democracy and advocate for Ranked…

Public Benefit
6
FairVote Minnesota

Organizes and advocates for local and state policy change to improve voting methods in public elections.

Civil Rights
7
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
8
Citizens League

The citizens league is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that empowers people to engage in civic life and public policy, to make minnesota a better place to live and work for everyone.

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9
Ayada Leads

Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

Human Services
10
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
11
Civic Consulting Minnesota

Ccm helps local governments achieve significant and measurable improvements by giving them the tools to be more efficient. we do this by providing private sector pro bono expertise to solve specific, tangible problems for governmental…

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12
Protect Minnesota

Protect Minnesota promotes a culture of health and safety for all Minnesotans by preventing gun violence through research education advocacy and community investment. We emphasize prevention using a public health model and we seek to build…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Takeaction Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Civic Ark. 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

27 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. 27 of the 30 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/27
Grantees still filing
12/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alliance for a Better MN: $5,207,585 · OtherAlliance for a Better MNWORKING AMERICA: $1,190,453 · OtherWORKING AMERICACITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC: $549,580 · OtherCITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INCBLUEPRINT CAMPAIGNS: $390,000 · OtherBLACK CIVIC NETWORK: $382,000 · Other+7 more: $610,900 · Other+7 moreMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $801,535 · Civil RightsMINNESOTA YOUT…GrassRoots In Action: $222,000 · Civil RightsGrassRoots In …COPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $101,815 · Civil RightsCOPAL COMMUNID…TIOGA FUND INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTIOGA FUND INCFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $88,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN MINNE…+4 more: $131,025 · Civil Rights+4 moreAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $600,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes: $160,000 · Community ImprovementMinnesota Voice: $127,000 · Public BenefitREPOWER: $125,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $65,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitLEADERSHIP MATTERS MN: $50,000 · EducationIsuroon: $45,476 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $40,000 · Employment
Other$8,330,518Civil Rights$1,444,375Community Improvement$760,000Public Benefit$342,000Education$50,000Human Services$45,476Employment$40,000

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 budgetWORKING AMERICA: $1,190,453 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $801,535 over 6y, 76% of budgetAlliance for a Better Minnesota: $600,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A WORKING AMERICA INC: $549,580 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetBLUEPRINT CAMPAIGNS: $390,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetBLACK CIVIC NETWORK: $382,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetCONSERVATION MINNESOTA VOTER CENTER INC: $225,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetGrassRoots In Action: $222,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetAmerica Votes: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Voice: $127,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCOPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $101,815 over 4y, 33% of budgetTIOGA FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $88,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP MATTERS MN: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $46,784 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsuroon: $45,476 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $40,241 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA: $34,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ACTION FUND: $34,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetAB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRO-CHOICE MINNESOTA: $20,650 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCIVIC ARK: $10,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesAll Hands on Deck Net…Twin Cities Schools' …Minnesota VoiceWomen Donors Network …North FundHeadwaters Foundation…The Minneapolis Found…Tides FoundationLaborers Internationa…Center for Popular De…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Win Minnesota funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Win Minnesota. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Win Minnesota?

    Find your warmest path to Win Minnesota 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 30 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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