Minnesota · Nonprofit
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,983,985 to it, the largest being NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($3,276,535). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Minnesota Black Collective Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MN Legal Education, Advocacy, and Defense (MN LEAD): We facilitate, support, and inspire the philanthropic, non-profit, and social impact field to be in power-shifting solidarity to realize the promise of racial justice. We partner with renowned organizations to advance systems change through data, relationships, and networks. In 2025, The Collective expanded the MN LEAD initiative, a multiracial effort to build a strong, interconnected ecosystem that proactively addresses legal challenges to race-conscious grantmaking, programs, and activities. MN LEAD helps shape narratives, provide education, and support strategic efforts for racial justice for nonprofit organizations throughout MN.
$747,107 spentof which $254,375 as grants40% of program spendingNew Suns Fellowship: Since inception, the Collective has been committed to supporting the genius of Black leaders. Through the New Suns Fellowship, we create one-of-a-kind experiences designed to sustain the well-being of leaders as they build resilient organizations, contribute to a connected ecosystem, and build a movement for Black-led Change. Fellowships include flexible funding for well-being, sustainability, and readiness to lead. Retreats and convenings offer immersive spaces for reflection, strategic planning, and community-building. Fellows also serve as a brain trust of advisors to the Collective, guiding responsive organizing and philanthropic investments aligned with our mission.
$603,573 spentof which $449,500 as grants32% of program spendingEvents & Convenings: We continue to strengthen the ecosystem of those that serve the Black community through community convenings, retreats, and more. For example, in 2025 we hosted The Collective Sum, a three-day immersive summit that blends deep learning, community building, and collective strategizing. Together, we explored bold ideas at the intersection of culture, economic power, and civic engagement. Attendees engaged in conversations and strategies that respond to today's challenges while staying true to our values. Another example is our Rooting engagement. For 4 years, Rooting has been a premier social gathering series curated for people working, leading, and serving the Black community in the social sector. At Rooting, we network, strengthen relationships, break bread, and reflect with one another on what it takes to be well and work for a more just MN.
$341,182 spentof which $13,125 as grants18% of program spendingOther Program: We work to harness the power, leadership, and brilliance of Minnesota's Black communities to create transformational solutions across the justice system, safety, economics, health, and well-being. Other program investments are used across community-based grantmaking, organizational infrastructure, programming, endowment, research, and convening to resource and advance the ecosystem of Black-led change and to expand who can impactfully participate in philanthropy.
$199,054 spentof which $16,000 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,890,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.7M to $5.2M (+9%).
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.
96% of Minnesota Black Collective Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Aretha Green-Rupert
Chair/Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Minnesota Black Collective Foundation’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
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 Minnesota Black Collective Foundation.
“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
99% of Minnesota Black Collective Foundation's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k 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.
Against its field
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Minnesota Black Collective Foundation
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
80% 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 Minnesota Black Collective Foundation: 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 Minnesota Black Collective Foundation?
- Minnesota Black Collective Foundation (Minnesota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,983,985 to it, the largest being NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($3,276,535). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Minnesota Black Collective Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,983,985 in grants to Minnesota Black Collective Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota Black Collective Foundation?
- NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $3,276,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota Black Collective Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 20 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