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Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation

We unite people and resources, driving bold action to create lasting impact for a brighter tomorrow.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
136
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$256k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 136 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 136 grants below total $4,226,669 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,417,464 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,190,795 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $316k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $256k
$20,326
Median grant
3
States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHUM$256,361
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$243,678
YWCA OF DULUTH$152,539
DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC$115,000
BAD RIVER BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS$103,943
CONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION DBA MINNESOTA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT$100,000
ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING$94,726
FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER$92,500
DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC$85,118
NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC DBA NEW DAY ADVOCACY CENTER$79,575
MARSHALL SCHOOL$79,069
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA (PPMNS)$70,572
DULUTH AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION$70,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS SERVING NORTHERN MINNESOTA$62,305
23RD VETERAN$62,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $115k → 15%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $35k → 12%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 15%MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 10%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $25k → 12%PROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT: $15k → 12%FINLAND CHILDREN IN NATURE GROUP: $35k → 8%YMCA OF DULUTH: $25k → 15%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $25k → 9%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $16k → 15%NORTHWEST WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC: $20k → 11%YMCA OF SUPERIOR-DOUGLAS COUNTY: $20k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $125k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $40k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE MINNESOTA: $36k → 14%NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC DBA NEW DAY ADVOCACY CENTER: $80k → 14%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $15k → 8%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $17k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN SERVICES: $14k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $14k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN SERVICES: $14k → 15%NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $14k → 15%TOURIST CENTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $28k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $153k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $58k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $58k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER: $55k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $52k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $40k → 15%YMCA OF DULUTH: $25k → 15%TOGETHER FOR LIFE NORTHLAND INC DBA STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME: $25k → 15%FATHERS RISE TOGETHER DBA FAMILY RISE TOGETHER: $25k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $20k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $18k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $14k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $93k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS SERVING NORTHERN MINNESOTA: $62k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $58k → 15%DULUTH CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $49k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $50k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $24k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $21k → 15%DULUTH CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $15k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $17k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH: $16k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH: $16k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $16k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NH
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
IA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 161 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

161 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161
125

Total granted

$14M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $942k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CU
    CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $557k · revenue +246%
  • CE
    CLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $508k · revenue +68% · 66% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $498k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • BR
    BAD RIVER HOUSING AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2017 · $66k
  • DF
    DULUTH FOLK SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +30% · 43% of their budget
  • BB
    BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +54%

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.

1
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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3
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
4
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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6
Northern Minnesota Public Television Inc

Lakeland pbs' mission is to educate, entertain, enrich and enlighten our "community" with the programming we produce right here in northern minnesota and the nationally available programming we choose to air on our channels. lakeland pbs'…

Arts & Culture
7
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council

Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
11
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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12
St Cloud Downtown Alliance Foundation

Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knife River Heritage & Cultural Center. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr14%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%11/324
the rest of the field
14%
2,083/15,222

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.

04the grantee network

250 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. 250 of the 325 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/250
Grantees still filing
175/250
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $557,474 · OtherCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRYCLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $508,285 · OtherCLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONMN Alliance With Youth-Promise Fellows — $362,410 · OtherHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $557,002 · OtherHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY+102 more — $6,258,449 · Other+102 moreYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $363,717 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S C…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $211,215 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL…DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $175,723 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULU…Family Freedom Center — $159,500 · Human ServicesFamily Freedom …FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS RISE TO…DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $144,204 · Human ServicesDULUTH AREA FAM…DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC — $135,000 · Human ServicesDIVINE KONNECTI…NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $112,306 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $109,819 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS WOMEN INC — $96,041 · Human ServicesPROJECT RENEWAL OF DAVENPORT — $75,000 · Human Services+13 more — $417,132 · Human Services+13 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $498,099 · EducationUNIVERSITY…NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $244,189 · EducationNORTH HOUS…COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $138,586 · EducationCOLLEGE OF…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $118,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY…DULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $90,679 · EducationDULUTH COM…NORTHLAND COLLEGE — $68,117 · EducationDULUTH FOLK SCHOOL — $65,000 · EducationNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $61,178 · Education+7 more — $176,344 · Education+7 moreLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING — $360,552 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE…ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION — $165,307 · HealthST LUKE'S …MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES — $161,777 · HealthMILLER-DWA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $127,904 · HealthPLANNED PA…North Shore Health Care Foundation — $126,254 · HealthNorth Shor…CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $89,840 · HealthCHILDREN'S…HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $73,921 · HealthCOMMUNITY PARTNERS-TWO HARBORS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM — $69,801 · HealthMINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS — $69,460 · HealthHealthy Alliances Matter for All — $61,454 · HealthMAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY — $60,000 · Health+2 more — $57,198 · HealthDULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC — $186,009 · Arts & CultureZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY — $175,910 · Arts & CultureDULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $145,430 · Arts & CultureDULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC — $123,710 · Arts & CultureASHWABAY ALLIANCE INC — $105,963 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BALLET INC — $73,898 · Arts & CultureDULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO — $60,058 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE INC — $59,599 · Arts & CultureLincoln Parent Teacher Organization — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $209,083 · Arts & CultureECOLIBRIUM3 — $195,589 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $152,000 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $145,691 · EnvironmentHARTLEY NATURE CENTER — $71,816 · EnvironmentDULUTH COMMUNITY GARDEN PROGRAM — $41,509 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE NORTH PIKES CREEK WETLANDS — $41,221 · EnvironmentWOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $36,800 · EnvironmentVOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY — $35,450 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS — $35,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP — $31,000 · EnvironmentWISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE INCORPORATED — $30,000 · Environment+4 more — $78,350 · EnvironmentLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $202,100 · Community ImprovementFriends of Finland and Community — $171,075 · Community ImprovementDULUTH AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Community ImprovementMINNESOTA CENTER FOR EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP — $60,500 · Community ImprovementBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION — $51,100 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINNESOTA — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTwo Harbors Area Food Shelf — $38,502 · Community Improvement+2 more — $36,497 · Community Improvement
Other$8,243,620Human Services$2,149,657Education$1,460,492Health$1,423,468Arts & Culture$1,189,660Environment$894,426Community Improvement$729,774

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $557,474 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY — $557,002 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $508,285 over 6y, 66% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $498,099 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $363,717 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING — $360,552 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC — $244,598 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $244,189 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetTHE MARSHALL SCHOOL — $230,112 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS — $212,559 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $211,215 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $202,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetECOLIBRIUM3 — $195,589 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetWEST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC — $188,727 over 5y, 55% of budgetDULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC — $186,009 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $184,843 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY — $175,910 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $175,723 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of Finland and Community — $171,075 over 8y, 13% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION — $165,307 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES — $161,777 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $161,200 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetFamily Freedom Center — $159,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $154,279 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST — $152,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC — $150,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL — $147,456 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $145,691 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetDULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $145,430 over 5y, 17% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA — $144,204 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC — $138,586 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC — $135,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED — $130,018 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $127,904 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Shore Health Care Foundation — $126,254 over 5y, 18% of budgetDULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC — $123,710 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetDULUTH AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC — $118,300 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $114,975 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $112,306 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $109,819 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASHWABAY ALLIANCE INC — $105,963 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $104,138 over 6y, 11% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH — $104,115 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMENTOR NORTH — $102,892 over 4y, 10% of budgetCONGREGATIONS CARING FOR CREATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetUDAC INC — $96,351 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHWOODS WOMEN INC — $96,041 over 4y, 7.5% of budget
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 CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HEAD OF THE LAKES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds CLOQUET EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEN AS PEACEMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ECOLIBRIUM3 ↗
  • Who funds WEST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Finland and Community ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Family Freedom Center ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS RISE TOGETHER INC FAMILY RISE TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Health Care Foundation ↗

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.

Lloyd K Johnson Found…Northland FoundationSmdc Medical CenterMinnesota Power Found…Ordean FoundationHead of the Lakes Uni…Mardag FoundationOtto Bremer TrustPachel FoundationC K Blandin FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Second Harvest Northl…
Lloyd K Johnson FoundationMN179.3× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Mardag Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pachel Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Second Harvest Northland

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 Duluth-Superior Area Community 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 325 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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