· Private foundation
Elizabeth Callender King 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,500 |
| WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES | $10,000 |
| HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL | $8,500 |
| MN MARINE ART MUSEUM | $5,265 |
| READY SET SCHOOL | $5,200 |
| PROJECT FINE | $5,140 |
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WINONA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $4,750 |
| GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $4,500 |
| IMPACT CENTER | $3,750 |
| INTERNATIONAL OWL CENTER | $3,525 |
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 (FY17–25, $91k) 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 0% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- WVWINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +48%
- MMMINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +130%
- FRFROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL7× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BCBuffalo County Land & Trails Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -95%
- WOWINONA OUTDOOR COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -59%
- WAWINONA AREA COMMUNITY EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $7k
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 promote and support the arts in willmar and surrounding communities through coordination, communication and collaboration and promotion.
The theatre's mission is to provide affordable, quality performing arts to west central minnesota.
Our mission is to build a vibrant community fueled by the arts. We enrich lives by connecting, celebrating, inspiring, and leading through shared art experiences. Our vision is a community alive with creativity.
Live well winona has a mission to engage the community in a culture of wellness that is distinctively noticeable and results in people that live longer, better lives, and are measurably healthier.
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
Increase awareness of the fine arts through films
To enhance knowledge awareness and participation in the visual arts in the community
Advocating and promoting arts and culture as it relates to community and economic development, educating local artists/groups, and connecting the community to more arts and culture opportunities.
To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.
To enrich lives by celebrating art, nourish imagination by inspiring creativity, and build understanding by connecting people.
Our mission is to relieve the suffering of and prevent cruelty to animals, and to increase humane education in the winona area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winona Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo County Land & Trails Trust 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 23 years old; the field is 29. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 51 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 GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WINONA VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MID WEST MUSIC FEST ↗
- Who funds WINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDBAR STORY TELLING FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WINONA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL OWL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Winona Civic Music Inc ↗
- Who funds Buffalo County Land & Trails Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HIAWATHA VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINONA OUTDOOR COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Engage Winona ↗
- Who funds Theatre du Mississippi ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FINE ↗
- Who funds Winona Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds EAGLEWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOME AND COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Art of the Rural ↗
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: Winona Community Foundation · Winona Foundation The · Slaggie Family Foundation · Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc · Dare Lamberton White & William F White Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Gostomski Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Rukavina Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Elizabeth Callender King 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.
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