How many funders does Black Storytellers Alliance have?

IRS filings report 4 grantmakers giving $59,351 in grants to Black Storytellers Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.

Who is the largest funder of Black Storytellers Alliance?

Minnesota Black Collective Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.

How can an organization like Black Storytellers Alliance 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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Black Storytellers Alliance

Black Storytellers Alliance (Minnesota) is funded by 4 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $59,351 in grants to it, the largest being Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$198k

Revenue FY2024

Funders on record

$59k

Grants received

$35k

Net assets

1/4 repeat funders

Against its field

Black Storytellers Alliance's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,477 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

01The organization over time

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

The base broadened — 2 funders to 3 as grant income moved $8k → $52k.

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'21

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total

Minnesota Black Collective Foundation

$50k

Minnesota Humanities Center

$8k

The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota

$2k

Amazonsmile FoundationDAF

$51

funders

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Black Storytellers Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

Black Storytellers Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%

largest funder

100%

top three

effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

Black Storytellers Alliance is locally rooted: 100% of its grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

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

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Minnesota out of state home

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 356 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

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

Questions and answers

Who funds Black Storytellers Alliance?: Black Storytellers Alliance (Minnesota) is funded by 4 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $59,351 in grants to it, the largest being Minnesota Black Collective Foundation ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Black Storytellers Alliance have?: IRS filings report 4 grantmakers giving $59,351 in grants to Black Storytellers Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Black Storytellers Alliance?: Minnesota Black Collective Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Black Storytellers Alliance 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.

Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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. view filing

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