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COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A
COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,664,435 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,257,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Copal-Education Fund Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Immigrant defense network (idn) launched in 2025, idn brings together 90+ organizations to provide trusted information, legal referrals, and coordinated responses to protect immigrant rights and ensure communities can live with dignity and without fear.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Health & wellness - copal's twin cities, southcentral, and southeastern mn hubs connect regional latine communities with the health and wellness resources they need. Copal hosts community vaccination events and resource fairs, a navigators hotline open 6 days per week, health and wellness workshops, and a program building the skills of local community health leaders.
$3,248,134 spent$1,900 earned by the program100% of program spendingEnvironmental justice - copal's environmental justice work addresses the root causes of forced migration due to climate change and extractive economies. We engage in coalitional strategies to create an equitable transition to clean energy and to keep major polluters accountable to the most impacted neighborhoods. We build bridges to green jobs for our latine communities and engage in activity-based organizing through monthly outdoor events.
Primero de mayo workers' center - our workers' center connects youth and adults to post-secondary education opportunities, provides job and career skills training, places youth and adults into careers that match their skills, and provides access to capital and services for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,248,134.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $5.8M (+88%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 56% · 2024 46% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Francisco Segovia
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $173k → $1.0M.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
74% 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 COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 36% · 2020 47% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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
45% of COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- 2905 East Lake Street LLC · disregarded
- Copal · exempt
- Somos the Future · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A?
- COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,664,435 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,257,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,664,435 in grants to COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,257,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 37 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