· Private foundation
Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of FARMERS UNION INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONG PRAIRIE EMER FOOD SHELF | $6,500 |
| REDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF | $6,500 |
| UDMO - EMMET COUNTY OUTREACH | $6,500 |
| MITCHELL FOOD PANTRY | $6,500 |
| MANNA FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| WORTHINGTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOOD S | $3,500 |
| BROWERVILLE AREA FOOD SHELF | $3,500 |
| RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $3,500 |
| MORRISON COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $2,500 |
| WE CARE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| SAUK CENTRE COMMUNITY CONNECTION | $2,000 |
| REDWOOD FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LONG PRAIRIE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- RAREDWOOD AREA COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +68%
- RAREDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +80%
- RCRENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NDNORTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION ED FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MCMT COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $45k
- VEVERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -40%
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.
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
Provide food assistance to low income families
Community food pantry
To provide food for people with low income within Faribault County.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Community Food Shelf offering free food to low income area residents
tohelpfightfoodinsecurity.wereviveandgivedonatedfooditemstothoselessfortunate.
County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Watonwan County Food Shelf Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cooperative Education Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 95 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 NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD AREA COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERNON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD AREA FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RENVILLE COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds WE CARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MORRISON COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
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: Land O'Lakes Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · 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 Farmers Union Industries Foundation Inc 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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