Minnesota · Nonprofit
VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS
VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($650,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $114k
What Vote Yes 4 Minneapolis does
Mission
The purpose of yes 4 minneapolis is to lobby for passage of the amendment to the charter of the city of minneapolis, eliminating "police" as a chartered department and replacing it with "public safety department; engage in conversations with the black community around understanding the problems with the current system of policing and how they would like to see it changed; as well as educate black community members about how to participate and provide input in city-level government.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
General program activity, communication activity, field & canvassing, and research.
$2,924,973 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,924,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $339k to $151k (−55%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $650k → $530k.
From the IRS filings of VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 9 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
VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS draws 87% 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. 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.
Organizations like VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS: 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 VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS?
- VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($650,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,619,000 in grants to VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing