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Agate Legacy Fund at a glance

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Agate Legacy Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$36kYouth Development$27kHuman Services$15kInternational$15kEducation$7kEnvironment$5kHealth$4kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$482k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUTWARD BOUND INC$5,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION$5,000
ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$2,000
CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND$1,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$500
CSJ MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$500
OASIS FOR YOUTH$500
RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA$500
BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW$500
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$500
MIND BODY SOLUTIONS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $1k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%CSJ MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FUND: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $1k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $400 → 11%MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%BABYS SPACE - A PLACE TO GROW: $500 → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 12 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$119k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+66%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureAnimalsEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OF
    OASIS FOR YOUTH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +45%
  • OP
    ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • GM
    GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • OB
    OUTWARD BOUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +66%
  • YO
    YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -22%
  • TB
    THE BLAKE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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3
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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5
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
8
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
9
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
10
Summit Academy Oic

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.…

Education
11
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
12
Great Mn Schools

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $41,400 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATIONOASIS FOR YOUTH: $27,000 · OtherOASIS FOR YOUTHOUTWARD BOUND INC: $5,000 · OtherOUTWARD BOUND INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherTwin Cities Rise: $2,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $100 · OtherCSJ Ministries Foundation: $4,500 · Human ServicesCSJ Ministries Fo…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4,400 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOL…YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOL…BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $4,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S SPACE A PL…MIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $3,500 · Human ServicesMIND BODY SOLUTIO…ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $20,000 · InternationalONEVILLAGE PARTN…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $4,200 · EducationUPTURNSHIPS INC: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationOUTWARD BOUND INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentRETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC: $2,725 · Animals
Arts & Culture$41,400Other$38,100Human Services$20,400International$20,000Education$7,400Environment$5,000Animals$2,725

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $41,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS FOR YOUTH: $27,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCSJ Ministries Foundation: $4,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIND BODY SOLUTIONS: $3,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC: $2,725 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Julie & Doug Baker Jr…The Richard M Schulze…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationUnited Way WorldwideMortenson Family Foun…Greater Twin Cities U…The Graco Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Agate Legacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agate Legacy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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