· Private foundation
Eljay Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SUMMER MUSIC ACADEMY | $21,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CANTS | $5,000 |
| COMMUSICATION | $1,500 |
| CONSPIRARE | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA CHORALE | $1,000 |
| SKYLARK VOCAL ENSEMBLE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $500 |
| MPLS-IMPULSE | $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 (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- LMLUTHERAN MUSIC PROGRAM6× · 2018–2023 · $77k · revenue +50%
- NLNATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +147%
- CCANTUS8× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- ICILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- LSLUTHERAN SUMMER MUSIC PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $22k
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.
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
The Singers serve as artists educators and ambassadors of the choral art. Primary activities are performances educational outreach and recording.
Promote Contemporary Choral Music
Artaria centers on string quartet performance and education in minnesota. it is committed to presenting inspiring performances, to mentoring string players of all ages, and to illuminate the world's great repertoire of chamber music to a…
The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.
High quality performances of sacred choral music in beautiful venues that transform listeners in concert and worship and nurture a deeper connection with God and one another.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The Thirteen is a professional choir and orchestra with a mission to inspire the soul to sing, move the heart to empathy, and build community, all through groundbreaking musical performance: through concerts, workshops, education outreach,…
Inspiring young voices across the Twin Cities to sing and develop a lifelong love for choral music. Our programs serve children in grades K-12, and we also offer an adult choir, Encore. We rehearse weekly in Bloomington and perform at…
Community Music / Arts Organization
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cantus and the most unlike its peers is Mpls Impulse. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 LUTHERAN MUSIC PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR CORP ↗
- Who funds CANTUS ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 29 11 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUSICATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CHORALE ↗
- Who funds APOLLO FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSPIRARE INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds A PEACE OF MY MIND INC ↗
- Who funds MPLS IMPULSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SKYLARK VOCAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CROSSING BORDERS MUSIC COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
- Who funds INTERSERVE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE ↗
- Who funds EXULTATE ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ↗
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: Anna M Heilmaier Charitable Fdn · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Target Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Eljay 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.
- Voices of Hope Inc — 5% 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.