Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP
MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,762,866 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($620,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $455k
What Minnesota Education Equity Partnership does
Mission
To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building equitable school communities & capacity of leaders to lead with the mneep race equity training center mneep seeks to increase the capacity of schools and communities to pursue equity goals by providing leadership development opportunities for both heads of school districts and for parents, students and civic activists. In 2024-2025 this overall goal was supported through different activities, including:a. Supporting the duluth public schools, and the lionsgate academy schools in development of race equity training for their schools b. Conducting a cultural validating pedagogical (cvp) training series for the mn association of secondary administrators and presenting a statewide webinar series on cvp both for k-12 and higher education practitioners.
$119,290 spent$8,000 earned by the program20% of program spendingC. Research collaborative table (rct) mneep maintained a research collaborative group that is multi-racial in composition and draws researchers, assessment experts from both community-based organization and diverse education institutions spanning k -12 to postsecondary education. It advices on all of our work and notably on our engagement with the key interest holders in the mn cruz-guzman vs. State of minnesota school integration lawsuit.
$115,115 spent20% of program spendingImprove higher education equity in arming systems with new race equity insights, mneep contributed to new empirical-based knowledge of poci community realities. In 2024-2025 this goal:a. Convened the college race equity advocacy advisory council (creaac) to direct and guide policy advocacy through state legislative action of a 10-point policy set of proposals aimed at student affordability, access and support. B. Develop a public awareness and community engagement on racial equity in higher education.c. Held a series of on campus seminars and listening sessions for students, administrator, educators and community activists at the university of mn, twin cities, and at the minnstate minneapolis college campus.
$205,544 spent35% of program spendingSupport emerging multi-lingual learners (eml): in shifting systems culture, mneep organized efforts to make poci and emerging multi-lingual (eml) students more visible and valued for the assets they possess as multi-lingual learners. In 2024-2025 this goal supported a variety of activities, including:a. Convened quarterly, eml network organizing meeting for direction and action on program implementation.b. Updated and maintained an eml on-line toolkit to provide resources for eml and el educators, leaders, families, and advocates.c. Supported the eml network in policy advocacy for state legislative action and for local schools to increase the capacity of schools to deliver stronger el services to students. Mneep participated in a state legislative task force that resulted from our prior year legislative advocacy work. D. Networked with national groups, including the internationally and nationally renowned migration policy institute for ongoing policy development.
$129,852 spent22% of program spendingFostering positive school climates to end discipline disparities in minnesota schools that support all students for success (sns): ending racial disparities in school discipline practices in shifting systems culture, mneep continued to train and equip school and community leaders for deeper knowledge of creating mutually respectful, positive school environments with policies and practices informed by critical race theory. Mneep seeks to both build up the capacity of practitioners pursuing alternatives to punitive school discipline practices and the capacity of parents, students and teachers to advocate for alternatives. In 2024-2025 this goal was supported through different activities, including:a. Maintained an online toolkit for school districts, parents, student and community advocates on advocacy for, and information on, restorative alternatives to student seclusion policies.
$9,181 spent2% of program spendingCreate and retain a racially diverse teacher workforce (toc): in shifting systems culture, mneep provided new tools and processes for cross-sector stakeholders to racially diversify and retain the state's teacher workforce. In 2024-2025, this goal:a. Worked with the mn state teacher licensing board (pelsb) to advance pilot micro-credentialing opportunities for non-el licensed instructors to better support el students. This is deemed a stop-gap, helpful alternative to full licensure given the critical shortage of el certified teachers in mn.
$10,534 spent2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $589,516.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $791k to $1.3M (+59%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2021 6% · 2023 16% · 2024 4% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Carlos Mariani Rosa
Executive director
Board chair
Megan Rozowski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $469k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP’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 EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 34% — 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
60% of MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
65% of MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP: 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 EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP?
- MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,762,866 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($620,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,762,866 in grants to MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA EDUCATION EQUITY PARTNERSHIP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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