Minnesota · Nonprofit
BEFORE RACISM
BEFORE RACISM (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,861 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($107,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $647k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Before Racism does
Mission
Helping children thrive in a racially diverse world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide high-quality facilitator/coaches (trainers) to deliver the young hearts open minds program at early childhood centers and demonstrate impact on the sites' staff and teaching practices in the areas of: (a) staff understanding of how bias and race bias develop in very young children, (b) staff understanding of how to help prevent the development of bias and race bias in very young children, and (c) staff understanding their own biases.accomplishment: secured 15 new sites during 2024 - a combination of daycare centers and preschools.all of the site directors were interviewed after the program was implemented at their site as to the effectiveness of the program on helping their staff understand how bias and race bias develop in very young children, what staff can do to prevent the development of bias and race bias and helping the staff understand their own biases. They rated the effectiveness on a scale of 1-10 (1 = not effective and 10 = very effective). Across all the new sites the ratings were very positive with a rating of 7 or higher.the site directors were also asked (in the same interview process as described above) to rate the effectiveness of the facilitator/coaches…
$121,322 spent79% of program spendingImplement a complete range of high-quality program evaluation activities throughout the course of the young hearts open minds program.accomplishment: interviews with site directors included open-ended questions focused on the program's content and delivery, with a focus on what worked in the program, what didn't work in the program, and how the program could be improved. Questions also focused on the impact of the young hearts open minds program on the teachers in these settings, their teaching practices, the overall culture of the site, and the impact on the children in the teachers' classrooms. These findings have been reviewed, analyzed and documented by jolosky market reasoning.all facilitator/coaches recorded their own experiences and notes regarding their experiences with the pilot sites. These notes are stored and available electronically and will be used in the refinement and improvement of the program moving forward.
$17,639 spent11% of program spendingEnsure the program represents best practices in the field of early childhood education and development.accomplishment: the young hearts open minds program was developed by six red marbles, a nationally recognized instructional design firm that provided the following services in the development of the program: (1) content development, (2) learning experience design, (3) creative input, (4) production, (5) project management, and (6) technology and innovation input. Further, all the work produced by six red marbles was reviewed and revised by a range of subject matter experts hired by young hearts open minds - individuals experienced in the field of early childhood development, early childhood education, early childhood assessment, and media production focused on young children. In addition, dozens of research studies and professional publications were reviewed as part of theprogram's development.
$14,948 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $153,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $120k to $161k (+35%).
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.
100% of BEFORE RACISM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Mary K Boyd
CEO
Board chair
Sheila Williams Ridge
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $163k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 BEFORE RACISM’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BEFORE RACISM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 BEFORE RACISM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 43% — 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
43% of BEFORE RACISM's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% 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
66% of BEFORE RACISM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BEFORE RACISM is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BEFORE RACISM
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEFORE RACISM: 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 BEFORE RACISM?
- BEFORE RACISM (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,861 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($107,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEFORE RACISM have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $646,861 in grants to BEFORE RACISM, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEFORE RACISM?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEFORE RACISM 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 17 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing