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CONNECT THE DOTS

CONNECT THE DOTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE HEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$1k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Connect the Dots does

Mission

Support and promote programs in minnesota designed to facilitate the ability of impoverished and immigrant individuals to be gainfully employed.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.

Program

During our first year, we focused on the development of a viable infrasturcture and relationships to ensure successful continuity of the organization. Hired a case manager to establish key connections and manage future candidates fo the program. Identify and train volunteer mentors and develop process towards livable wage jobs.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2018 Revenue 1 ($1k) Expenses 185 ($33k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018
Revenue (1)Expenses (185)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $65k to $0 (−100%).

$65k
$0
20172018
Total assets

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’17
−$32k
’18
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CONNECT THE DOTS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CONNECT THE DOTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 CONNECT THE DOTS

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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECT THE DOTS: 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 CONNECT THE DOTS?
CONNECT THE DOTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE HEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONNECT THE DOTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to CONNECT THE DOTS.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECT THE DOTS?
THE HEAD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECT THE DOTS 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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