How much did DRISCOLL FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$8.5MArts & Culture$1.4MEnvironment$1.1MEducation$629kCommunity Improvement$390kHuman Services$261kHealth$181kAnimals$78kCrime & Legal$33kOther$1.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

lake superiorsafescholarshipappreciationinternationallisabuilding

2022

anonymoushorizonpayment two-yeartwo-year pledgeriver learninglisaresource

2023

boatpayment two-yeartwo-year pledgecapital honoralexandria

2024

get outout votemilalexandria honordriscoll's leadershipnativebuilding

2025

hlavkaalexandria honordonor advisedadvised alexandriatacomaeducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k50 grants · $183k
$10k–50k19 grants · $367k
$50k–250k8 grants · $515k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$100,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$65,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$50,000
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL$50,000
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITYGIVING$50,000
DODGE NATURE CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITYGIVING$47,500
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$45,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$40,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$37,212
AVON HILLS FOLK SCHOOL$25,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH CENTRAL STATES$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.6M · 96 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

96 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+89%

Still filing today

70%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

ML
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $405k · revenue +108%
MP
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
5× · 2021–2025 · $355k · revenue +2%
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL
5× · 2021–2025 · $354k · revenue +20%

Funded once

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $8.1M · revenue +160%
CM
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TACOMA - GREENTRIKE
one grant, 2022 · $75k
WR
WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University of Minnesota Alumni

Connecting alumni, students, and friends in support of the university of minnesota and each other.

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Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences.

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MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Medical Association

Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts

Enriching community by collecting, preserving and making accessible outstanding works of art

Arts & Culture

Aia Minnesota

Advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.

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Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

The Minneapolis Foundation

Together, we drive collective action in order to realize strong, vibrant communities.

Philanthropy

University of Minnesota Foundation

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Greentrike. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/98

the rest of the field

6,875/74,208

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.

05the grantee network

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/94

Grantees still filing

75/94

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$8,487,150Other$1,859,326Arts & Culture$1,375,000Environment$1,123,112Education$629,458Community Improvement$390,000Human Services$261,308

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.

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.

The McKnight FoundationMN47.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Community Foundation · Hrk Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen 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 organisation DRISCOLL 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RUNESTONE MUSEUM FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237391175 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RUNESTONE MUSEUM FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Driscoll Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Driscoll Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DRISCOLL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Driscoll Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DRISCOLL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Driscoll Foundation?

More from the funding graph