· Private foundation
Deal Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEGIN ANEW | $119,000 |
| ACHIEVE | $111,810 |
| ANOKA RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CAER FOOD SHELF | $4,000 |
| ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING | $4,000 |
| SHARING AND CARING HANDS | $4,000 |
| LYRIC ARTS COMPANY OF ANOKA | $2,000 |
| YOUTHFIRST | $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 (FY19–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 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
- BABEGIN ANEW4× · 2021–2024 · $445k · revenue +384% · 88% of their budget
- COCOALITION OF RECOVERY INVESTMENT2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +29% · 33% of their budget
- SSSTEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING6× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $300k
- SSST STEPHENSone grant, 2023 · $60k
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
First call for Help of Itasca County is a private, nonprofit community organization whose mission is to provide free, confidential and nonjudgement crisis intervention, active listening, and information and referral services 24 hours a…
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Cornerstone disrupts violence through advocacy, support, and prevention. We partner with individuals, families, and organizations to build communities free of harm.
Mediation and Restorative services mission is to provide accessible, affordable mediation and restorative practice to underserved populations, to provide them with the tools to help them resolve their own conflicts, repair harms and…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
Minnesota engagement on shelter and housing's mission is to foster statewide partnerships and strengthen capacity to end homelessness. mesh helps regions, communities, and organizations develop strategic and customized solutions for ending…
A faith-based emergency shelter and crisis response ministry aimed at meeting the basic needs of food, shelter and clothing and transforming lives through the love of Jesus. Our mission is to serve people who are on the journey from…
Firstlink is your local 24/7 agency that specializes in suicide support services, volunteerism, and linking people to thousands of community resources, including behavioral health and addiction.
To provide accessible and affordable accommodations for patients and their care givers while seeking specialty neurological healthcare in rochester, mn.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accord and the most unlike its peers is Coalition of Recovery Investment. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 BEGIN ANEW ↗
- Who funds THE FRONT LINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF RECOVERY INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE EMERGENCY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AID OF ELK RIVER ↗
- Who funds LYRIC ARTS COMPANY OF ANOKA INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEVER SURRENDER INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
- Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
- Who funds ACCORD ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Minnesota ↗
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: Connexus Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ramsey Lions Club · Edina Realty Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless · Allina Health System · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Connexus Energy
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 Deal Family 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.