· Private foundation
Foothills Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE | $10,180 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $8,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $4,800 |
| SOLID GROUND | $2,500 |
| PARENTING WITH A PURPOSE | $2,070 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LAKESHORE PLAYERS THEATER | $1,344 |
| RALPH REEDER FOOD SHELF | $1,069 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,030 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE LINK | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +88% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +119%
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +240%
- SGSolid Ground6× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +369%
Funded once
- UVURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +30%
- ICInternational Center of Fatherhoodone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -23%
- OMORDWAY MUSIC THEATERone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Working closely with parents and communities, we ensure that children within the most isolated families are born healthy, stay healthy and are prepared for school.
Assisting families in shelters to gain more confidence in building future goals that will lead to success of the entire family.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
The land stewardship project (lsp) was organized on june 1, 1982, as a division of the national catholic rural life conference and in 1983 was incorporated under the minnesota (mn) nonprofit corporation act. lsp is supported primarily by…
Man up mobilizes, supports, and trains men to model healthy masculinity in their homes, churches, and communities so that fatherlessness decreases in the world.(continued on schedule o)through mentoring, fatherhood coaching, discipleship,…
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is 5 Stone Media. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Center of Fatherhood ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds PARENTING WITH PURPOSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds 5 Stone Media ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Restoration Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STARS & STRIPES 4 EVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds REISER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Foothills 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.