· Public charity
Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc
By providing hope and positive vision, optimists bring out the best in kids 18 and under.
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.
The 13 grants below total $149,680 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $224,945 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,265 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITYGIVING | $31,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS CENTRAL MN COUNCIL | $10,680 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MN | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ST CLOUD YMCA | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD - CATHOLIC EDUCATION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ST CLOUD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| CONNECTABILITY OF MN INC | $10,000 |
| ELEVATE PREGNANCY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +80%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +21%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- KFKIDS FIGHTING HUNGERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +221% · 29% of their budget
- GRGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +307%
- MWMINNESOTA WOMEN OF TODAYone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
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…
The Minnesota Children's Alliance leads the development and growth of locally based children's advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to services for healing and growth.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…
Reaching out to young people everywhere to raise up life-long followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Power to Save a Life Inc Advocates for Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds CONNECTABILITY OF MN INC ↗
- Who funds AVON HILLS FOLK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds POWER TO SAVE A LIFE INC ADVOCATES FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Communitygiving · Morgan Family Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · United Way of Central Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Initiative Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Optimist Club of St Cloud · Cross Works Foundation · Benton Telecommunications 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 Central Mn Noon Optimist Club 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.
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