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Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,171,043 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $912,185 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $666,146 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $351,806 |
| AUGSBURG COLLEGE | $261,822 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY | $252,593 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $232,486 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $229,190 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $224,136 |
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $209,743 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY | $205,898 |
| CONCORDIA COLLEGE | $196,119 |
| HAMLINE UNIVERSITY | $183,264 |
| COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $178,650 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $153,270 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
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 St Thomas6× · 2019–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +38%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +37%
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIESone grant, 2023 · $896k
- MSMN ST COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIESone grant, 2019 · $200k
- SJSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $153k · revenue +51%
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Bethany lutheran college provides christian higher education in a challenging academic environment where personal mentoring guides students to pursue knowledge, truth, and discernment for productive and fulfilling lives.
Seeking truth, building strength, inspiring service - together
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of Saint Benedict and the most unlike its peers is St John's University. 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 80 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 St Thomas ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds St John's University ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEECH LAKE TRIBAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Communitygiving · Kopp Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity 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.
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