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MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC

MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,411,510 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($1,501,394). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.0M
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$4.4M
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
16/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 57 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($1.9M) Net assets 79 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 66 ($1.6M) Expenses 71 ($1.6M) Net assets 83 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 86 ($2.1M) Expenses 105 ($2.3M) Net assets 76 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 121 ($3.0M) Expenses 102 ($2.3M) Net assets 108 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 93 ($2.3M) Expenses 108 ($2.4M) Net assets 106 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 116 ($2.9M) Expenses 117 ($2.6M) Net assets 120 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 131 ($3.3M) Expenses 129 ($2.8M) Net assets 138 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 120 ($3.0M) Expenses 137 ($3.0M) Net assets 132 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (137)Net assets (132)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 33% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% · 2024 66% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$301k
17
$496k
18
$80k
19
$155k
20
$764k
21
$48k
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$324k
23
$441k
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$11k
25
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $262k → $782k.

4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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

MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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

59% 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 MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC.

34%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 39%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

56% of MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

91% of MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
NY
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.

Federal$2.5M
grants $2.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 21%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Model Cities Brownstone LLC · disregarded
  • Model Cities Sankofa LLC · disregarded
  • Model Cities Families First No 1 LLC · disregarded
  • Model Cities Brownstone Commerical LLC · disregarded
  • Model Cities Community Development Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC?
MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,411,510 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($1,501,394). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,411,510 in grants to MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC?
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $1,501,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing