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Botsford Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of BOTSFORD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND FORKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK | $1,000 |
| MY ALLY HEALTH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EMPIRE ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| FIREHALL THEATER | $1,000 |
| NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UND SMHS ENDOWMENT FUND | $1,000 |
| MY VERY OWN BED | $900 |
| EVERY MEAL | $750 |
| ICA FOOD SHELF | $750 |
| PARK NICOLET FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UND ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- EAEMPIRE ARTS CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
- MHMYALLY HEALTH8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%
- EMEVERY MEAL6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +558%
Funded once
- UAUND Alumni Association and Foundationone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +9%
- AHALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +211%
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
End hunger together.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
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
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Lakeland pbs' mission is to educate, entertain, enrich and enlighten our "community" with the programming we produce right here in northern minnesota and the nationally available programming we choose to air on our channels. lakeland pbs'…
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Great river children's museum (grcm) shines a bright light on the power of play to spark children's learning, strengthen families, and build community connections. its dynamic, interactive environments and experiences are a gateway to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Forks Curling Club Inc. 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 41 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 68 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 GRAND FORKS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MYALLY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAUL BUNYAN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds GRAND FORKS CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTWISE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds My Very Own Bed ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GRAND FORKS DBA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE PROP SHOP OF EDEN PRAIRIE ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLAUS GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL ↗
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: Myra Foundation · Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · United Way of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and the Area Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Hal and Kathleen Gershman Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Botsford 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.
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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