Minnesota · Nonprofit
Social Venture Partners Minnesota
Social Venture Partners Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $839,073 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($238,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $231k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $839k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Social Venture Partners Minnesota does
Mission
SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a better future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grant making: Social Venture Partners Minnesota provides grants to youth-serving projects and provides collaborative consulting on capacity building projects so that the organizations can make a greater impact with the youth they serve and for the community. We also provide a cohort peer-learning model for the executive directors for our current and alumni investee organizations.
$77,000 spent69% of program spendingPartner education and support: we provide education, training and support for our donor partners so that they can become more effective consultants and philanthropists. We also have a cohort peer-learning model for our lead partners who work on the impact teams with the investee organizations.
$32,635 spent29% of program spendingSVP has a youth program called YouthSparks where we inspire young people to dream big about how to make the world a better place. They submit their ideas and four winners take home a prize as well as connections to help move their idea into reality. Ideas can be a new product or a nonprofit, but all must have a purpose higher than generating revenue.
$1,500 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,135.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $271k to $208k (−23%).
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: 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Social Venture Partners Minnesota’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Jessica Rogers
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $49k → $187k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota’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
Social Venture Partners Minnesota leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 37% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 22% — 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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
86% of Social Venture Partners Minnesota'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $720k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Social Venture Partners Minnesota runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Social Venture Partners Minnesota
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota: 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 Social Venture Partners Minnesota?
- Social Venture Partners Minnesota (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $839,073 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($238,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Social Venture Partners Minnesota have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $839,073 in grants to Social Venture Partners Minnesota, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Social Venture Partners Minnesota?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Social Venture Partners Minnesota 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 2018–2025), 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