Minnesota · Nonprofit
Nexus Community Partners
Nexus Community Partners (Minnesota) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,541,870 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($54,370,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $76M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Nexus Community Partners does
Mission
We co-create more liberated communities by strengthening leaders, cultivating community wealth and stewarding the just distribution of resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Open Road Fund: The Open Road Fund is a community fund that redistributes money to present-day descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to build Black wealth in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. We make $50,000 wealth-building gifts to Black individuals to create "tangible pathways to liberation, prosperity, and healing on our own terms." In 2025, we made gifts to 100 individuals and provided individual financial counseling to help recipients achieve their goals. We also provide public webinars on financial topics (financing education, home ownership, and business) and healing, led by Black experts and presented through a Black cultural lens.
$5,781,360 spentof which $5,001,834 as grants65% of program spendingOwnership: The Ownership work stream includes: The Shared Ownership Center @ Nexus (SOC@N), a cooperative development program focusing on communities traditionally excluded from ownership, and North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship (North Star), a 7-month cooperative leadership cohort. SOC@N supports locally anchored businesses and more equitable workplaces that help grow the region's economy. Through the St. Paul LOCAL Fund, SOC@N engaged more than 1,000 people in training, outreach, and technical assistance, awarded $420,000 in grants, and supported 4 business conversions to worker ownership. We also helped launch a coalition of community-owned real estate investment cooperatives advancing new models of collective ownership.Leadership: The Leadership work stream includes: Reclaiming Our Own Time (ROOT), a rest and sabbatical program, and the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI), a training program for publicly appointed boards. In 2025, ROOT provided 15 sabbaticals for BIPOC movement leaders - providing monthly rest periods over 8 months and reached 200 people through community events, including a 3-day "Heal the Healers" conference. BCLI trained 11 people in this…
$3,016,004 spentof which $730,194 as grants$995,221 earned by the program34% of program spendingFiscal Sponsorship
$31,004 spentof which $31,004 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,828,368.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $52M (+331%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of Nexus Community Partners’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Repa Mekha
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $795k → $53M.
10 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Nexus Community Partners’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
Nexus Community Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 25% · 2020 18% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 95% — 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
64% of Nexus Community Partners's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
90% of Nexus Community Partners's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Nexus Community Partners's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Nexus Community Partners
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
Public support
36%
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 Nexus Community Partners: 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 Nexus Community Partners?
- Nexus Community Partners (Minnesota) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,541,870 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($54,370,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Nexus Community Partners have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $75,541,870 in grants to Nexus Community Partners, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nexus Community Partners?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54,370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nexus Community Partners 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 51 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