· Private foundation
Belton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $393k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEHAHA ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH | $30,000 |
| ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| GUTHRIE THEATER | $26,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY | $16,800 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- WCWashburn Center for Children4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +31%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +61%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- LALAND AND LIFE FOUNDATIONGone grant, 2019 · $25k
- GTGUTHRIE THEATREone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gospel Association of India Inc. 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 35 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 70 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 MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds 4WORD ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF FATHERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN FOOD SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds YELLOW TREE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL MUSIC COOPERATIVE-NORTH ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL ASSOCIATION OF INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Walser Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Engelsma 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 Belton 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.
- Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.