Minnesota · Nonprofit
GROWTH & JUSTICE
GROWTH & JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,511 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($225,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $582k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Growth & Justice does
Mission
To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Since January 2021, as a follow-up to the MN Equity Blueprint, G & J has been developing the MN Equity Map with the University of MN-Morris, Center for Small Towns. The map is a platform to help geographically pinpoint and narratively share the vital work done by community organizations and community members to foster regional, racial, and environmental equity. It encourages and aids idea-sharing and cooperation between communities and community members who want to help improve their communities. In a 2021 report, The Brookings Institute lauded the MN Equity Blueprint community engagement process as a national best practice for promoting collaboration and resilience, State resilience and recovery: Strategies to reduce inequality and promote prosperity by creating better places. G & J has also serves on and supports work on several state boards and committees to help advance rural, racial, and environmental equity in MN: the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Advisory Board, Minnesotans for the American Community Survey, Lead for Minnesota, the MN Climate Action Framework Clean Economy Work Group, the MN Rural Broadband Coalition, and ServeMinnesota -AmeriCorps,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $83k to $205k (+146%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 34% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $33k → $16.
4 of 13 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 GROWTH & JUSTICE’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
GROWTH & JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 GROWTH & JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 98% · 2019 71% · 2020 32% · 2021 66% · 2022 78% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of GROWTH & JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
81% of GROWTH & JUSTICE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like GROWTH & JUSTICE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROWTH & JUSTICE: 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 GROWTH & JUSTICE?
- GROWTH & JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,511 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($225,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWTH & JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $581,511 in grants to GROWTH & JUSTICE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWTH & JUSTICE?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWTH & JUSTICE 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 13 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