· Private foundation
First Community Health Foundaton
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: 46% of FIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATON’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECOVERY ALLIANCE DULUTH | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| WELL BEING DEVELOPMENT | $75,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $50,000 |
| MN SIXTH DISTRCIT TREAMENT COURT | $50,000 |
| HARM REDUCTION SISTERS | $50,000 |
| CHUM | $50,000 |
| CENTER CITY HOUSING | $50,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,960 |
| DAMIANO CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of First Community Health Foundaton’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- RARECOVERY ALLIANCE DULUTH INC4× · 2019–2025 · $394k · revenue ×111 · 50% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG TREATMENT4× · 2017–2024 · $304k · revenue +40%
- LHLIFE HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- HHHEART HEALTHY COMMUNITIESone grant, 2024 · $100k
- SSURCone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AAARROWHEAD AREA AGENCY ON AGINGone grant, 2024 · $55k
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.
Promote health through skiing
To assist individuals with cancer and life-limiting illnesses
The purpose of Cokato Charitable Trust division is to provide quality health and housing services that enhance the quality of life and maintain a maximum level of functioning for our residents.
Our mission is "Partnering to Create a Healthier Community." NorthPoint seeks to reduce health disparities, improve health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life for all residents of North Minneapolis
To provide mental health and drug addiction services.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Minnesota Recovery Connection's mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education and advocacy.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
In our belief and purpose, MACMHP operates to support and conduct non-partisan education and informational activities on mental health, chemical dependency, and related services and to provide leadership and services that strengthen member…
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
Walker Adult Day Services promotes healthy aging with the focus to improve and enhance overall wellness. Through a system of supportive services in one location the program conveniently assists people experiencing isolation due to physical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generations Health Care Initiatives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 46 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 RECOVERY ALLIANCE DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HARM REDUCTION SISTERS ↗
- Who funds Well Being Development ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Northwoods Partners ↗
- Who funds Age Well Arrowhead Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds Care Partners of Cook County ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES INC ↗
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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Head of the Lakes United Way · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ordean Foundation · Second Harvest Northland · Minnesota Power Foundation · Medica Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Pachel 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 First Community Health Foundaton 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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