'City Pages': Northwest Area Fund

The past six years at the Northwest Area Foundation have been "mystifying," says City Pages, a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis.

City Pages says the foundation has been slowing down its spending on grants while increasing the amount it pays in administrative costs.

The newspaper says that in 2000-1, the foundation told the Internal Revenue Service it spent $4-million on charitable pursuits, but that less than $3-million of that was for grants to nonprofit

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