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Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $685k
- $250k+2 grants · $531k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $280,644 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC | $200,000 |
| MEALS FROM THE HEART | $135,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC | $100,000 |
| YOUTH FRONTIERS INC | $100,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGIA INC | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UPPER MIDWEST INC | $75,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FOREST INC | $35,000 |
| BILINGUAL LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC | $25,000 |
| ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| MILITARY SPOUSE CORPORATE CAREER NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2020–2025 · $545k · revenue +38%
- MEMetropolitan Economic Development Association5× · 2021–2025 · $375k · revenue +28%
- JAJunior Achievement of Georgia6× · 2020–2025 · $362k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $338k · revenue -55%
- MMMEDA - METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC DEV ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SDSheep Dog Impact Assistancegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +56%
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
End hunger together.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 131 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 NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Economic Development Association ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FOREST INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OSCAR MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOL GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Camp Encourage ↗
- Who funds WOMENVENTURE ↗
- Who funds ATHENAS WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Sheep Dog Impact Assistance ↗
- Who funds For the Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEXT GENERATION MEN & WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOLDEN SCOOP LLC ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Target Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan
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 Deluxe Corporation 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.
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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