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Frush 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.
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 $10k26 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIAWATHA ACADEMIES | $10,000 |
| FILM NORTH | $5,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC OF MADISON | $2,000 |
| THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| ECHO THEATER COMPANY | $1,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC OF COLUMBUS OHIO | $1,000 |
| BARTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $500 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $400 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE | $300 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 68% 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
- HAHIAWATHA ACADEMIES9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +61%
- MAMINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +108%
- MCMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY6× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- MCMAYFLOWER COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONALone grant, 2024 · $18k
- FFILMSCENEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +53%
- MAMN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
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,…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is My Sisters Keeper of Atlanta. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 81 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 HIAWATHA ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FILMSCENE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FILMNORTH ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STROKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OYO DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS KEEPER OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SINGERS ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds ECHO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE THURBER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mortenson Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
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 Frush 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Echo Theater Company — 1% 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.
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