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Crow Wing Power Community Trust
Accumulate and disburse funds for educational and charitable purposes
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 2 grants below total $21,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $228,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $207,500 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE | $15,000 |
| CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES | $6,000 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BOBRIDGES OF HOPE4× · 2019–2023 · $73k · revenue +116%
- LALAKES AREA FOOD SHELF2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +36%
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc2× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- DIDOOLEY INVESTMENTS LLCone grant, 2019 · $12k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTHone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +10%
- CVCAMP VANASEKone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
To respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness. the lakes community health center, inc. is proud to be a community health center (chc) working to…
To improve access to quality health care for all.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…
To provide basic necessities at no cost to those in need.
Provide training and community engagement for youth and individuals with varying abilities to enhance their self-esteem and quality of life.
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…
Building a healthy, vibrant, drug-free community in the lakes area by reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors around youth to prevent underage substance use and addiction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Good Neighbors Ems Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 BRIDGES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF CROW WING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BREATH OF LIFE ADULT DAY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CROW WING COUNTY VICTIM SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS EMS FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BRAINERD LAKES CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH 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: Essentia Health Foundation · Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · E W Hallett Charitable Tr Ua · Minnesota Power Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Crow Wing Power Community Trust 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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