Minnesota · Nonprofit
MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE
MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Majority in the Middle does
Mission
Majority in the Middle will identify solutions and work towards resolution of structural problems that negatively affect our civic and political culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Majority in the Middle is an objective, outside force for systemic change to improve transparency, participation, and civility within political and civic life. We're giving those in the middle a place to gather outside the back-and-forth, elevating voices of people who are modeling behavior we want to see, and working on ways to bring a little more civility and a little less partisanship to our politics.during the year, we produced the state of bipartisanship report. This report measured partisan and bipartisan authorship of bills introduced and heard during the year. Additionally, the organization hosted the purple party. The purple party is a nonpartisan post-election celebration of democracy.
$1,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shannon Watson
Executive director
Board chair
Aaron Pearson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE’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
MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
94% 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 MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE.
“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.
Where its funders are
94% of MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,043 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE: 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 MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE?
- MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,000 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $86,000 in grants to MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE.
- Who is the largest funder of MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAJORITY IN THE MIDDLE 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing