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TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND

TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,840,437 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($4,661,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.5M
Revenue FY2025
111
Funders on record
$27M
Grants received
$597k
Net assets
39/111 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%

Against its field

TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than half of the 432 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−110% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 432 public benefit 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 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 135 ($2.7M) Expenses 130 ($2.8M) Net assets -601 ($-89341)2019 Revenue 178 ($3.6M) Expenses 150 ($3.3M) Net assets 1204 ($179k)2020 Revenue 1777 ($36M) Expenses 244 ($5.3M) Net assets 9458 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 434 ($8.7M) Expenses 766 ($17M) Net assets 8447 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 357 ($7.2M) Expenses 344 ($7.5M) Net assets 7053 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 206 ($4.1M) Expenses 387 ($8.4M) Net assets 2457 ($365k)2024 Revenue 156 ($3.2M) Expenses 282 ($6.1M) Net assets 3876 ($576k)2025 Revenue 273 ($5.5M) Expenses 535 ($12M) Net assets 4017 ($597k)
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Revenue (273)Expenses (535)Net assets (4017)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,088 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$151k
17
$104k
18
$329k
19
$31M
20
$7.9M
21
$262k
22
$4.2M
23
$3.0M
24
$6.1M
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $826k → $2.0M.

23 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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: $2.1M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Family Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND raised.

From the IRS filings of TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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

TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

66% 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 TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND.

17%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 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

23% of TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 22 states in all.

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 111 funders put you typical 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.

Organizations like TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND

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

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 3 related entities

  • Takeaction Minnesota · exempt
  • Takeaction Minnesota PAC · exempt
  • Takeaction Mn Federal Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: 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 TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND?
TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,840,437 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($4,661,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $26,840,437 in grants to TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND?
The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,661,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND 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 111funders 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