· Private foundation
Dovenberg 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Harvest Heartland | $10,230 |
| Interfaith Outreach | $9,844 |
| Toys for Tots | $9,505 |
| Southern CT Storm Special Hockey | $3,600 |
| Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation | $3,000 |
| Childrens Cancer Research Fund | $2,670 |
| American Cancer Society Hope Lodge | $2,000 |
| Consumer Reports | $1,000 |
| Lake Minnetonka Garden Club | $1,000 |
| Minnesota Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Imara International | $750 |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters | $750 |
| St Phillip the Deacon Lutheran Church | $650 |
| Seed Savers Exchange | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +18% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +40%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +91%
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
- CFCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COASTone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -34%
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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Consumer Reports Inc. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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 31 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 INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MINNETONKA GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds IMARA INTERNATIONAL KRIS THORP ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DINOMIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The John J and Maryanne T Mauriel Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Dovenberg 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.
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% 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.