· Private foundation
Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of ALEX G & MOLLIE TANKENOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Anchored by a single position — about 95% of reported assets are held in Us Bank.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSD | $4,000 |
| TEMPLE OF AARON | $3,800 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC OF MNND | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SRV MPLS | $2,400 |
| HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE SHOLOM FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| JEWISH COMM REALTIONS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA HILLEL | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION | $500 |
| TPT | $500 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM MIM | $500 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE | $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 (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MOMinnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +37%
- NCN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +45%
- MJMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- JIJ-HAP INCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -19%
- MOMN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE MOCAone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
Jewish community action's mission is to organize minnesota jews on key issues impacting our families and neighbors, including religious freedom, affordable housing and public safety.
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 purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 38 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 SHOLOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MINNESOTA (MN) SECTION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds J-HAP INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO 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 · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Baratz Family Foundation Inc · The Rum Fund · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · Moscoe Family Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Tankenoff Families Foundation · Carl & Tammy Birnberg Family 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 Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation 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.
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% 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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