· Private foundation
Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio
THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION BEYOND THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, INCLUDING TRAINING AND INTERNSHIPS, TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN CAREERS THAT WILL SERVE THE RURAL AREA.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMEDSRUD FOUNDATION INC | $1,211,893 |
| GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTY GRAPE GROWERS | $20,000 |
| TEXAS EXES | $20,000 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $15,000 |
| PIONEER CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOUGH 4 JOE | $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 (FY23–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC4× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +37%
- GMGLOBAL MINNESOTA2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +10%
- GMGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- WFWORLD FAIR BID COMMITTEEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- FAFF AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
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…
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The mission of the minneapolis regional chamber development foundation is to offer innovative ways of reducing unemployment, improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth, initiate and conduct leadership development programs…
The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Region Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends and Allies Project Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 SMEDSRUD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER FERGUS FALLS CORP ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FERGUS AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS AND ALLIES PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLON CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
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: Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Communicating for Agriculture Scholarship and Education Foundatio 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.