Minnesota · Nonprofit
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,551,976 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($8,853,230). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Achieve Twin Cities does
Mission
As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, Achieve Twin Cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota for careers, college and life. Our vision is that all students have full and equitable access to postsecondary education and career opportunities, creating a more just and vibrant community. Founded in 2002, Achieve Twin Cities has provided career and college readiness services for over 95,000 students, equipping them to achieve in-demand, rewarding careers while contributing to a diverse talent pipeline that supports the health and vitality of our workforce and community. While our high schools prepare students academically, Achieve Twin Cities helps ensure that each student graduates with the one-on-one guidance, resources and confidence they need to achieve their career and postsecondary dreams and secure meaningful, life-sustaining careers and financial independence. Achieve recognizes the value in every path to personal and economic success and provides caring guidance and expertise to empower each student to pursue their best options for…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Career & college initiatives programs - see schedule ocareer & college initiatives programs:school-based career and college readiness program Achieve Twin Cities is a universal career and college readiness provider, working in partnership with minneapolis public schools and saint paul public schools to help students develop individualized plans for life after high school. In collaboration with school counselors in 28 high schools, we provide one-on-one guidance and connect students with a wide range of postsecondary and career opportunities, including two and four-year college, apprenticeships, training programs, employers and other options to help them explore and plan for purposeful, life sustaining careers. These services are accessible to 17,000 high school students each year, with over 10,000 students participating directly in our activities, including 93% of seniors. Our professional team-which includes licensed counselors, social workers, admissions experts, educators and youth workers-work one-on-one with students to build the kind of trusting, long-term relationships that are essential for creating post-graduation plans and career success. They offer personalized career…
$4,368,777 spent$1,554,035 earned by the program70% of program spendingMinneapolis public schools partnership - see schedule ominneapolis public schools (mps) partnership: in addition to being a strong program partner through career and college readiness services in mps high schools, Achieve Twin Cities also serves as the nonprofit foundation for mps. In this role it administers major grants for stem programs, educator pathway programs and other district priorities. It also manages $4-5 million in private funds for mps schools and departments, administers college scholarships for mps graduates and awards mini grants for district staff development and classroom projects.
$1,904,954 spentof which $1,655,676 as grants$225,680 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,273,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $9.7M to $13M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
56% of ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Danielle Grant
President/CEO/ex-officio
Board chair
Shamayne Braman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $162k → $4.3M.
13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 57% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES?
- ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,551,976 to it, the largest being CARGILL FOUNDATION ($8,853,230). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $18,551,976 in grants to ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES?
- CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,853,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing