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ALL SQUARE

ALL SQUARE (Minnesota) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,101,934 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,610,650). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
$1.8M
28/48 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What All Square does

Mission

All Square is a nonprofit social enterprise that invests in people impacted by the criminal legal system. We seek to empower people impacted by the criminal legal system to move forward with healing, community, and hope. We fight for a world where those who finish their legal sentences are All Square, meaning truly unencumbered by their criminal records socially, economically, and politically. All Square invests in people by running a nonprofit, employment, social enterprise restaurant and food truck and a corresponding fellowship program. The restaurant & food truck - your go to spot for grilled cheese in minneapolis, serving up employment opportunities for justice-impacted folks. Our food truck brings grilled cheese on the move expanding our outreach and employment offerings. The fellowship - a personal and professional development program exclusively for individuals who have returned home from prison. Through the fellopowship, fellows can opt into no-cost wellness and therapy resour

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Founded in 2016, All Square is a direct response to the systemic exclusion of currently and formerly incarcerated people from economic mobility, social capital and wealth accumulation. Our mission is to heal the harms created by the criminal legal system by changing the way criminal records are used and viewed. Our work first operationalized in 2018 with our restaurant and fellowship program. Through this program, fellows maintain competitive employment in our craft grilled cheese restaurant and/or food truck while receiving free civil legal services and individual/family therapy. Graduates of the fellowship are eligible for debt alleviation and seed capital through our fellow fund. In 2021, we expanded our work to include our legal arm: the prison to law pipeline and law firm. This arm, which is a nonprofit subsidiary, is coined "the legal revolution." it exists to ensure that those most impacted by the law have access to positions of power and wealth accumulation within the law, specifically through legal education and employment.

    $2,126,013 spentof which $794,808 as grants$225,327 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,126,013.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($854k) Net assets 100 ($506k)2021 Revenue 163 ($2.0M) Expenses 149 ($1.3M) Net assets 243 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 254 ($3.1M) Expenses 392 ($3.3M) Net assets 195 ($985k)2023 Revenue 162 ($2.0M) Expenses 175 ($1.5M) Net assets 354 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 345 ($4.2M) Expenses 405 ($3.5M) Net assets 504 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 137 ($1.7M) Expenses 280 ($2.4M) Net assets 362 ($1.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (137)Expenses (280)Net assets (362)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.9M (+79%).

$731k
$1.5M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$3.9M
$2.5M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2024 12% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$368k
’20
$723k
’21
−$244k
’22
$485k
’23
$759k
’24
−$717k
’25
8.0
months of
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

Maya Pennington

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed99911911
Joined·+0+2+4+2+4
No longer listed·02242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 24 funders, grant income rose $3k → $2.0M.

13 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ALL SQUARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

ALL SQUARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALL SQUARE.

29%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 31% · 2021 18% · 2022 48% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.

“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

39% of ALL SQUARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

86% of ALL SQUARE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL
NY
SD
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ALL SQUARE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Legal Revolution · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALL SQUARE: 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 ALL SQUARE?
ALL SQUARE (Minnesota) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,101,934 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,610,650). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALL SQUARE have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,101,934 in grants to ALL SQUARE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALL SQUARE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,610,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALL SQUARE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 48 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