· Private foundation
Butzow 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
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 · $33k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $35,000 |
| BRIDGING INC | $35,000 |
| FACE IT FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BOLDER OPTIONS | $35,000 |
| GIFFT HILL SCHOOLCORAL BAY SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| ABIJAH'S ON THE BACKSIDE - HORSES FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PAY IT FORWARD FUND | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY | $15,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ISLAND GREEN LIVING RECYCLING | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 87% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- BOBolder Options9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +88%
- BIBridging Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $276k · revenue +29%
- FIFACE IT FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- BDBLACK DOG HILL SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- WBWATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY OF NY INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
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 foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. the focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing…
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds FACE IT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Herb Brooks Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEG UP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART ↗
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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fastbreak Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation
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 Butzow 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.