· Private foundation
Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr
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 $10k11 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $20,000 |
| MICROGRANTS | $12,500 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIESDOROTHY DAY CNTR | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF | $8,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOC ST PAUL | $8,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $8,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE HOME | $5,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MY VERY OWN BED | $4,500 |
| URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ARC OF GREATER TWIN CITIES | $3,000 |
| UPLIFT NORTH | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 HEARTLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +119%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $126k · revenue +57%
- SGSolid Ground7× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +349%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $30k
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +246%
- PHPRESBYTERIAN HOMESone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
We connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food. the good acre is the largest nonprofit food hub in minnesota. we play a critical role in creating market access for farmers in our region. for 2023, with…
The Humanity Alliance is a Minnesota-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that aspires to create long-lasting community value. Our initial focus is on providing improved access to nutrition for those who are food insecure... restoring love and…
Hunger solutions minnesota is a comprehensive hunger relief organization that works to end hunger in minnesota. we take action to assure food security for all minnesotans by supporting programs and agencies that provide food to those in…
Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
A faith-based emergency shelter and crisis response ministry aimed at meeting the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing and transforming lives through the love of Jesus. Our mission is to serve people who are on the journey from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Group Minnesota Inc the and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN NEED FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTH ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ↗
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: Edina Realty Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Birmingham-Dorsey Char Tr 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.