Minnesota · Nonprofit
RECONNECTRONDO
RECONNECTRONDO (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,030 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($340,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $624k
What Reconnectrondo does
Mission
Our mission is to lead the effort to revitalize the rondo community with a land bridge that reconnects rondo and reignites a vibrant african american cultural enterprise district in saint paul, mn.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creating an african american cultural enterprise district reconnect rondo is building a bridge to better by creating an african american cultural enterprise district connected by a community land bridge. The rondo land bridge project aims to revitalize this district and foster an inclusive, equity-based local economy that not only restores what was lost but creates a continuous cycle of economic, social, and environmental benefits for the neighborhood and beyond. Our restorative development approach leverages principles of the circular economy, regenerative urbanism, and smart city technologies to build community wealth and well-being. This work intentionally creates traditional and alternative career paths and living-wage jobs for residents historically denied access to economic opportunity. Reconnect rondo serves as a national model and blueprint for communities similarly impacted by transportation policy. State (mn) funded technical studies - these studies advanced the project through concurrent efforts, including a restorative neighborhood area plan and an anti-displacement and community investment strategy. Restorative development final report and implementation guide…
$1,260,816 spent81% of program spendingOrganizing of the ecosystem, the rondo roundtable - organizing the ecosystem: the rondo roundtable the rondo roundtable, a coalition of 14 historic rondo organizations, aligns residents and stakeholders around restorative development goals. Reconnect rondo provided facilitation and tools to create an executive team responsible for executing initiatives that preserve rondo's legacy, restore what was lost, and promote generational wealth-building. April 30, 2024 - rondo avenue renaming ceremony reconnect rondo and the city of saint paul hosted a historic renaming back to what it was, ceremony, unveiling the first new rondo avenue sign. The event featured musical performances and speeches from community leaders, celebrating rondo's enduring legacy. The roundtable continues to work on their key strategies: "preserve the legacy of rondo "restore what was lost in rondo - "support generational wealth building for black people "promote the future of rondo as a cultural district "support and amplify rondo roundtable organizations reconnecting communities summit the 2024 reconnecting communities summit and 2nd annual reconnect communities initiative united communities nationwide, garnering…
$212,818 spent14% of program spendingReconnect rondo led robust engagement activities in 2024, connecting with over 6,000 individuals through planning sessions, festivals, and national convenings. Highlights include hosting the reconnecting communities summit, supporting the rondo roundtable, and facilitating screenings of displaced. These efforts strengthened cross-sector relationships and advanced our mission to restore connection, opportunity, and equity in the historic rondo neighborhood. 2024 events january 18, 2024 - neighborhood restorative development area planning session at wilder foundation march 2024 - dinner table series at pilgrim baptist april 2024 - rondo avenue renaming ceremony june 2024 - rondo juneteenth block party (exact date not listed, typically mid-june) july 13 - central village park july 20, 2024 - rondo days july 27, 2024 - v-fest august 3, 2024 - taste of rondo block party august 4, 2024 - little africa festival august 18, 2024 - central honors philando september 11-13, 2024 - 2024 reconnecting communities summit & 2nd annual reconnect communities initiative september 13, 2024 - minnesota african american leaders forum & dinner september 14, 2024 - selby jazz fest various transportation…
$82,199 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,555,833.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $370k to $963k (+160%).
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: 2019 27% · 2020 28% · 2021 35% · 2022 95% · 2023 80% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of RECONNECTRONDO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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.
Board chair
Marvin Roger Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $75k → $160k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 RECONNECTRONDO’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
RECONNECTRONDO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
44% 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 RECONNECTRONDO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 55% · 2023 31% — 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
75% of RECONNECTRONDO's funders are still giving 2 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
RECONNECTRONDO draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $339k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RECONNECTRONDO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RECONNECTRONDO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Transportation$2.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
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 RECONNECTRONDO
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RECONNECTRONDO: 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 RECONNECTRONDO?
- RECONNECTRONDO (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,244,030 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($340,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RECONNECTRONDO have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,244,030 in grants to RECONNECTRONDO, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RECONNECTRONDO?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RECONNECTRONDO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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