· Private foundation
Alice M O'Brien Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE MILLS FOLK SCHOOL | $53,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $20,750 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATIO | $20,750 |
| FASD UNITED INC | $20,000 |
| EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY | $19,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $16,750 |
| SECOND HARVEST HARTLAND | $16,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $10,750 |
| STANDING CEDARS COMMUNITY LAND CONS | $4,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $4,500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST P | $4,000 |
| EMERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,750 |
| CASA OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC | $2,250 |
| THE MINNESOTA OPERA | $1,500 |
| HEART OF TEXAS THERAPY DOGS | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 15 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +31%
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +125%
- MMMARINE MILLS FOLK SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $56k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TMTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION (RESTORE REBUILD REIMAGINE FUND)one grant, 2021 · $70k
- MMMINNESOTA MEDICAL FOUNDATION AT THEone grant, 2023 · $60k
- SISETTLED INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +56%
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 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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
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…
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Irene Chadbourne Ecumenical Food Pantry. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 139 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MILLS FOLK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SETTLED INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Standing Cedars Community Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARINE VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ZAKAH AID AND CHARITY ASSISTING HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Asian Women United of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PROTEZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH TERRIER RESCUE OF THE SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes 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 Alice M O'Brien 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% 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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