· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE JEAN LYLE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| MAAYANOT COMMUNITY MIKVEH OF MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David M Wark and Mary Ann Barrows Wark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David M Wark and Mary Ann Barrows Wark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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