Minnesota · Nonprofit
SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE
SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,391,158 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($771,065). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $960k
What Saint Paul Downtown Alliance does
Mission
The Saint Paul Downtown Alliance has created a business model centered around having a modest and lean general operating budget that is supported by yearly private and public sector contributions and doing additional fundraising for other specific programs and opportunities. When the Saint Paul Downtown Alliance was established in 2018 three standing committees were formed at the same time: downtown experience, employer expansion, and ssd (special service district) feasibility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The downtown experience, to improve and enhance how workers and visitors experienced downtown, primarily through placemaking and other public realm activations
$187,509 spent9% of program spendingEmployer expansion, to attract new employers, retain existing employers, and grow the job base in downtown
$94,941 spent5% of program spendingEstablish and operate a special service district (safe and clean) which brings government, nonprofit, and for profit entities together for the betterment and safety of the downtown saint paul area
$1,757,041 spent86% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,039,491.
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 2020 to 2021, from $951k to $2.3M (+138%).
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 22% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $135k → $380k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $1.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE’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
SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 74% — 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 SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
58% of SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE
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
69% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE: 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 SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE?
- SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,391,158 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($771,065). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,391,158 in grants to SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $771,065 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAINT PAUL DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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