· Public charity
Central Minnesota Council on Aging Inc
The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $4,777,304 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,882,428 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,124 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,510,436 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $803,308 |
| FAMILY PATHWAYS | $204,678 |
| HORIZON HEALTH | $175,947 |
| MID MN LEGAL ASSISTANCE | $173,177 |
| WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY IN ACTION | $136,442 |
| ASSUMPTION COMMUNITY FAITH IN ACTION | $120,875 |
| CASS COUNTY FAITH IN ACTION | $82,078 |
| PAYNESVILLE LAHBNP | $67,915 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES | $67,744 |
| CENTRAL MINNESOTA DEMENTIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $67,026 |
| CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION (CAIRO) | $64,650 |
| KANABEC COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $61,395 |
| A HOME FOR THE DAY | $46,330 |
| WHITNEY SENIOR CENTER | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $26.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +59%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +78%
- MLMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +71%
Funded once
- SCSENIOR CARE CONSULTING LLCone grant, 2017 · $35k
- WCWADENA COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $14k
- LALAKES AREA INTERFAITH CAREGIVERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +74%
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.
Services to neighbors in need including the elderly
Neighborhood helping neighbor program that uses volunteer professional staff to help seniors remain safely in their homes with an enhanced quality of life
To enhance and promote the independence, dignity, value and well- being of older and disabled adults and those who care for them.
St. luke's lutheran care center provides elderly and handicapped people with housing facilities and services and is specially designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of the residents and to contribute to their…
To provide non-medical, volunteer-based support for older adults living in Faribault County in order to help them maintain independence, dignity and quality of life.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…
Catholic eldercare provides a full continuum of care for seniors. our goal is to support each person throughout the remainder of their lives in a holistic way. we provide care in partnership with family, church and community in as least…
The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.
Provide services to keep seniors independent in their homes.
To provide nursing care and related services to the aged and handicapped in winona, mn and the surrounding area.
To assist individuals with disabilities to live independently, pursue meaningful goals, and have the same opportunities and choices as all people.
Drawing from religious, business, civic and individual resources, the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers program works to meet two mutually entwined and equally important purposes: to respond to the ever-growing needs of older and physically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assumption Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ecumen Sbc 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 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION FOR CASS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PAYNESVILLE AREA LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA DEMENTIA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LAKES & PINES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CARE-COMMUNITY ACTION RESPECTING ELDERS ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds CASS LAKE AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD ↗
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: Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Communitygiving · United Way of Central Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust · Benton Telecommunications Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota
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 Central Minnesota Council on Aging Inc 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.