Minnesota · Nonprofit
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,004,940 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($970,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $832k
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Voices for Racial Justice does
Mission
Voices for Racial Justice works to advance racial, cultural, social and economic justice in minnesota through organizer and leadership training, policy research and strategic convening work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Racial equity policy - "our policy and research strategy consists of creating and using legislative advocacy, community based research and analysis as organizing tools. We work in collaboration with community organizers, activists, healers, artists, and multiracial coalitions, to advance racial justice in minnesota.policy and research tools:two tools inform our policy and research strategy: (1) the racial equity impact assessment, and (2) principles for authentic community engagement. Organizing and training - "strengthening communities and movements through shared learning and training that uplifts the organizing, leadership, and visions of people working to achieve racial justice.our training and leadership development at Voices for Racial Justice comes from a long history of investing in emerging leadership of organizers in minnesota. We offer training in community cohorts and on a contract basis. For years our organizing training has focused on racial justice analysis, relationship-building opportunities, and practical skill-building for organizers working for racial, cultural, social, and economic justice in minnesota. In the last couple years we have deepened our commitment…
$1,412,518 spentof which $60,805 as grants$66,312 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,412,518.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $584k to $3.3M (+462%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 2% · 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $322k → $1.5M.
14 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
40% 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 VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 47% · 2019 27% · 2020 15% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% — 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
46% of VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
68% of VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: 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 VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE?
- VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,004,940 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($970,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $7,004,940 in grants to VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 57 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