· Private foundation
Beaverdale 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $45,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $25,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $25,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - MN ND & SD | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| WGBH (BOSTON PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| WETA (DC PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| WTTW (CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION) | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TV | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD N CENTRAL STATES | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASH DC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +59%- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +89%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SPSAINT PATRICK'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- NDNORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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…
Engaging the community to end hunger
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.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
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…
End hunger together.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood North Central States and the most unlike its peers is Green Door. 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 52 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 40 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 THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ZAHARA KATHAWALLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Trout Unlimited ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds GREEN DOOR ↗
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 · Mithun Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving 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 Beaverdale 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 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.