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Engelsma Family 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.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$654kHuman Services$306kCommunity Improvement$231kPhilanthropy$220kHousing & Shelter$181kAnimals$117kEmployment$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YouthLink$50,250
PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION$45,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC$36,000
FRASER$29,000
DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$26,000
Regions Hospital Foundation$25,000
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$25,000
Childrens Health Care Foundation$25,000
N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC$20,000
Washburn Center for Children$15,000
FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING$15,000
Pinky Swear Foundation$15,000
Childrens Theater Company & School$15,000
WILDFLYER COFFEE$11,000
Layla Julien Foundation$10,250
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $809k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JACK'S CAREGIVER COALITION: $10k → 5%UNCOMMON GOOD: $5k → 14%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $15k → 5%JACK'S CAREGIVER COALITION: $10k → 5%UNCOMMON GOOD: $5k → 14%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $10k → 5%Jack's Caregiver Coalition: $5k → 5%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $13k → 11%UNCOMMON GOOD: $5k → 14%Think of Us: $5k → 14%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $10k → 5%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $10k → 11%Think of Us: $5k → 14%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $9k → 5%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $5k → 11%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $8k → 5%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $5k → 11%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $8k → 5%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $15k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $15k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10k → 14%Pinky Swear Foundation: $22k → 11%Pinky Swear Foundation: $20k → 11%Pinky Swear Foundation: $20k → 11%THINK SMALL: $5k → 14%Pinky Swear Foundation: $15k → 11%Pinky Swear Foundation: $10k → 11%Pinky Swear Foundation: $10k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%FRASER: $57k → 11%FRASER: $35k → 11%FRASER: $33k → 11%FRASER: $32k → 11%FRASER: $30k → 11%FRASER: $30k → 11%FRASER: $29k → 11%FRASER: $29k → 11%FRASER: $28k → 11%YouthLink: $50k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 75 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
77

Total granted

$2.9M
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • F
    FRASER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +51%
  • SA
    SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +39%
  • UV
    URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • MP
    MN PEACEBUILDING LEADERSHIP INST
    one grant, 2019 · $33k
  • FH
    Fairview Health Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • AG
    ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF MN F
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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4
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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5
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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9
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
10
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
11
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
12
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…School District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…
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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr18%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr18%38%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/152
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,837

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

149 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. 149 of the 171 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/149
Grantees still filing
91/149
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRASER — $302,000 · Human ServicesFRASERGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $160,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $96,500 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATIONMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC — $63,125 · Human ServicesMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES…YOUTHLINK — $50,500 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKHELPING PAWS INC — $37,500 · Human Services+17 more — $99,630 · Human Services+17 moreSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $233,300 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OICGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $171,500 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLL…DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $167,200 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TE…LIFE TIME FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+19 more — $67,450 · Education+19 moreREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $133,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOU…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $132,563 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CA…N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC — $123,000 · HealthN C LITTLE MEMORIAL …Washburn Center for Children — $77,500 · HealthWashburn Center for …TREEHOUSE INC — $32,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INC — $30,250 · HealthFairview Health Services — $25,000 · Health+15 more — $57,375 · Health+15 moreURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $175,100 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP F…PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION — $114,150 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATIONHOUSE OF CHARITY — $70,000 · OtherHOUSE OF CHARITYMN PEACEBUILDING LEADERSHIP INST — $32,500 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherChildren's Theatre Company and School — $62,000 · OtherChildren's Theatre Company …ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS — $54,760 · OtherONEVILLAGE PARTNERSAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $46,000 · OtherAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES IN…+69 more — $264,148 · Other+69 moreFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $55,500 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS — $54,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $50,207 · PhilanthropyLAYLA JULIEN FOUNDATION — $45,250 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $27,000 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY — $20,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $9,018 · PhilanthropyAT HOME GROUP — $72,140 · EmploymentWildflyer Coffee — $70,600 · EmploymentTwin Cities Rise — $10,000 · Employment+2 more — $7,500 · EmploymentAnimal Humane Society — $56,100 · AnimalsMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL — $7,500 · AnimalsTHE BOND BETWEEN — $6,000 · AnimalsPET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTA — $5,000 · Animals+6 more — $3,532 · Animals
Human Services$809,255Education$669,450Health$610,688Other$848,658Philanthropy$260,975Employment$160,240Animals$78,132

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 budgetFRASER — $302,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $233,300 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $175,100 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $171,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $167,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $160,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $133,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $132,563 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC — $123,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION — $114,150 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $96,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAT HOME GROUP — $72,140 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetWildflyer Coffee — $70,600 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSE OF CHARITY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC — $63,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $56,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $55,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS — $54,760 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMICROGRANTS — $54,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $50,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $50,207 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC — $46,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAYLA JULIEN FOUNDATION — $45,250 over 2y, 43% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC — $37,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $30,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE TIME FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $27,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJACKS CAREGIVER COALITION — $25,300 over 4y, 18% of budgetFairview Health Services — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHEAST FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $17,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $15,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $15,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Savvy — $13,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL SQUARE — $10,259 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLake Street Council — $10,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FRASER ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Wildflyer Coffee ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING ↗
  • Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LAYLA JULIEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIFE TIME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds JACKS CAREGIVER COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Fairview Health Services ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHEAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Karen Wyckoff Rein in Sarcoma ↗

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 Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Mightycause Charitabl…The Walser FoundationXcel Energy FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Pohlad Family Foundat…Wem FoundationTarget FoundationThe K Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN59.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Wem Foundation · Target Foundation · The K 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 Engelsma 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Engelsma Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Engelsma Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 171 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines