· Private foundation
Cross Works Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL | $700,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY INC | $627,000 |
| GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD | $300,000 |
| ST MONICAS MONTESSORI INC | $250,000 |
| ST CLOUD AREA FAMILY YMCA | $200,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER PARISH OF MANKATO MINNESOTA | $150,000 |
| STPAUL'S CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER-NDSU CAMPUS FARGO | $150,000 |
| MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE | $150,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $125,000 |
| CHURCH OF SAINT JOSEPH | $100,000 |
| PARK FOREVER INC | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL OUTREACH | $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 (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% 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
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +158%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +46%
- SMST MONICAS MONTESSORI INC3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +612% · 85% of their budget
Funded once
- AAAVON AREA LAKES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $127k
- HRHOLY REDEEMER PARISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -13%
- WCWATERS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centracare Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project for the People of Paraguay. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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 GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD ↗
- Who funds ST MONICAS MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds St Cloud Area Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Erath County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY REDEEMER PARISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities - Upper Midwest ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Quanta Cares ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF PARAGUAY ↗
- Who funds ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Batahola Friends of ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUGARBUSH TRAIL ASSOCIATION 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: Communitygiving · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Cross Works 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.