· Private foundation
Caliber Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $6,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION | $5,000 |
| WILDERNESS INQUIRY | $3,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $2,500 |
| FERGUSON LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PATHWAYS | $2,000 |
| PROJECT DIVA | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERISTY | $1,000 |
| ISANTI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- MIMINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY8× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +186%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +59%
- WIWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC5× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $12k
- MCMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +19%
- CTCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +236%
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.
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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Spanish School Corporation the Greenwich Spanish School Gss. 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 37 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 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.
39 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. 39 of the 66 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 MINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ISANTI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AEON ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds CAMP TO BELONG ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Caliber 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.
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Riverview School Inc — 0% 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.