· Private foundation
Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WEST DENMARK LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| KINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF POLK | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| NORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS (ALLV) | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LUCK ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +87%
- TDTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +11%
- KOKINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $175k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE HUMAN & NAT RESOURCESone grant, 2024 · $90k
- CFCENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH AND POLICY AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide financial assistance to unity healthcare to help enable it to carry out its exempt function of providing health care to the community.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ruby's Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP OF POLK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED PIONEER HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LUCK AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVER OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAND MUNICIPAL AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE OF POLK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Ruby's Heart ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LUCK ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Albert Victor Ravenholt 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.
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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