Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,098 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND ($1,023,019). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Communities United Against Police Brutality does
Mission
Communities United Against Police Brutality works to end police brutality, misconduct and abuse of authority and to increase police accountability and constitutional policing. We provide assistance to people impacted by police violence, work to change policies and practices, and educate the community on their rights and safer interactions with law enforcement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
DOJ/MDHR Consent Decrees:We collected 800 additional experiences (for a total of 2300) to inform the MDHR and DOJ investigations into the Minneapolis police. We hosted a two-day listening session with the DOJ on Minneapolis police treatment of people in mental health crisis and prepared a report that provided extensive recommendations. We petitioned and became amici in the MDHR consent decree. We prepared and presented a detailed analysis of the MDHR consent decree in community forums. We provided an analysis and recommendations on civilian oversight in Minneapolis to the DOJ.
$154,658 spent100% of program spendingLitigation Unit:We worked on 24 cases, settling or resolving eight cases. We launched a major lawsuit against the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on behalf of five families to force the BCA to release data on the deaths of their loved ones. We held a major press conference announcing a landmark settlement in the Marcus Golden case and debunking the police narrative in that case. We helped the family of Cordale Handy win a record $21.5 million judgment from the City of St. Paul. We launched a lawsuit on behalf of unsheltered homeless people whose property was seized by the city during evictions.
Policy Work:We served on the POST Board Rules Advisory Committee, crafting law enforcement professional standards and rules that increased the power of the board to take action on licenses of officers who violate those standards. We worked with City of Brooklyn Center to develop an expanded response network, including developing a budget. We worked with the Minneapolis Police Chief to craft a policy regarding access to naloxone to address opioid overdoses. We testified for the passage of a bill to allow for civilian oversight of police. We wrote and worked for the passage of a bill that would strengthen the ability of the MN Board of Private Detective and Protective Agent Services to oversee unlicensed security companies and increase their accountability.
Our Mental Health Work Group traveled the state educating people about Travis' Law and advocating for its full implementation, tabling at numerous community events and conferences. We worked in coalition with numerous organizations to address police conduct during encampment evictions, stand with families of stolen lives, protest a racist police recruitment video, demand policies on the use of drones, demand community input into the future of the 3rd precinct, demand police action to investigate multiple attacks on Mosques. Co-hosted the Advocacy Accelerator conference. Hosted the October 22 National Conference. Presented at Netroots Nation on the development of expanded response networks. Developed recommendations and advocated for changes to the Minneapolis police federation contract. Provided data for a study by the Center for Work and Democracy on the cost of failing to prevent police violence in the Twin Cities. Tracked and provided data to media and public officials on the costs of lawsuits related to PTSD settlements. Arranged for legal defense of several activists. Legal and political defense of a whistleblower police officer. Provided assistance to dozens of people…
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,658.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+51%).
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.
34% of COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $50k → $23k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 98% · 2023 66% — 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
0% of COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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
93% of COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
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
36% 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 COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY: 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 COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY?
- COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,098 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND ($1,023,019). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,455,098 in grants to COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY?
- MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,023,019 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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