· Private foundation
David M Wark and Mary Ann Barrows Wark 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THINK SMALL | $120,000 |
| MOUNT ZION TEMPLE (FKA MOUNT ZION HEBREW CONGREGATION) | $100,000 |
| ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION (UJFC) | $87,550 |
| ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA | $50,000 |
| MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| THE JEAN LYLE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 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
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +64%- MMMINNESOTA MULTIFAITH NETWORK3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +135%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- NSNEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE (FKA SHADES LLC)one grant, 2021 · $13k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -20%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ST PAULone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 enrich the lives of students so they may enrich the jewish community and the world.
The purpose of the society is to promote the vitality and continuity of jewish culture in the upper midwest through preservation, interpretation and education.
The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…
To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.
To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.
To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is Jean Lyle Children's Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 Think Small ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED JEWISH FUND AND COUNCIL ST PAUL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds JEAN LYLE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MULTIFAITH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 David M Wark and Mary Ann Barrows Wark 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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