· Private foundation
Agate Legacy Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| OASIS FOR YOUTH | $500 |
| BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW | $500 |
| MIND BODY SOLUTIONS | $500 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND | $500 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY | $500 |
| RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OFOASIS FOR YOUTH7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +45%
- OPONEVILLAGE PARTNERS3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +40%
- GMGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- OBOUTWARD BOUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +66%
- YOYWCA OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -22%
- CCCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To assist individuals in developing their ability to earn and become contributing citizens in their community. we support the development of self sufficiency in every person regardless of background, economic status, or level of ability.…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Csj Ministries Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds CSJ Ministries Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
- Who funds MIND BODY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Mortenson Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Graco Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Agate Legacy Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.