How much does G2 Foundation give?

G2 Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $118,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does G2 Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), International (19%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are G2 Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($95k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($95k), Fishing For Life ($86k).

Does G2 Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does G2 Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as G2 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.

G2 Foundation

G2 Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

G2 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.

$118k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$300kInternational$212kFood & Nutrition$162kHuman Services$128kYouth Development$112kEnvironment$83kRecreation & Sports$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $78k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN HEROES OUTDOORS	$20,000
SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC	$10,000
FISHING FOR LIFE	$10,000
HOPEKIDS INC	$8,000
MN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE	$8,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$7,000
TOGETHER FOR GOOD	$5,000
CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)	$5,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK	$5,000
BRIDGES OF HOPE	$5,000
THE WATER PROJECT INC	$5,000
SUPPORTLIFE	$5,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC	$5,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED	$5,000
FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$980k · 34 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$980k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+33%

Still filing today

82%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +134%
FM
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +83%
FF
Fishing For Life
9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +73%

Funded once

AH
AMERICAN HEROES OUTDOORS
one grant, 2024 · $20k
BA
BULLSUGAR ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2018 · $13k
CH
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE DBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS & CLINICS OF MN
one grant, 2024 · $10k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment

Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

The End Fund Inc

The END Fund's mission is to control and eliminate six neglected tropical diseases: river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, schistosomiasis, intestinal worms, and visceral leishmaniasis.

International

Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heroes Outdoors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

32/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$327,000International$211,750Health$173,000Human Services$145,000Religion$106,000Philanthropy$86,000Environment$41,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Bame Foundation · Connexus Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · The Graco Foundation · American Gift Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization G2 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G2 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to G2 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to G2 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.

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More from the funding graph

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

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home