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Gage 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 $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $24,573 |
| Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church | $17,267 |
| Hospitality House Youth Development | $10,096 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,814 |
| INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Women's Foundation of Minnesota | $5,000 |
| Pacer Center | $2,500 |
| Phi Delta Theta Foundation | $1,500 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $1,000 |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $427 |
| Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church | $233 |
| Individual grant recipient | $186 |
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $451k · revenue +30%
Northwestern University5× · 2017–2021 · $275k · revenue +41%- ITINNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- NNNOMI NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +95%
- PFPANDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -97%
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
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,…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Gustavus Adolphus College is a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage. The College offers students of high aspiration and promise a liberal arts education of recognized…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nick Bollettieri Foundation Inc. 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 59 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) — 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 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.
34 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. 34 of the 44 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 AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds USTA Northern ↗
- Who funds Women's Foundation of Minnesota ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NOMI NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Nick Bollettieri Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PANDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Breck School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DINOMIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM8 INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BRAILLE WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · United Way Worldwide · McGlynn Family Foundation · The K Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy 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 Gage 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.
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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