· Private foundation
Gandrud Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Owatonna Public Schools | $2,800 |
| Gamehaven Council BSA | $2,000 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $2,000 |
| Healthy Seniors | $1,000 |
| Owatonna Children's Remedial Fund | $1,000 |
| Steele County Agricultural Society | $1,000 |
| United Way of Steele County | $1,000 |
| Florida Sheriff's Youth Ranch | $1,000 |
| Stout University Foundation | $500 |
| Steele County Historical Society | $500 |
| Owatonna Public Library Foundation | $500 |
| Univeristy Episcopal Church | $500 |
| MicrobeTV Inc | $500 |
| Owatonna Arts Center | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Gandrud Foundation’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, 83% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
- FSFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
- SCSTEELE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CChapterone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MTMN Tourette Syndrome Associationone grant, 2019 · $2k
- FSFLORIDA SHERIFF YOUTH RANCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 foster education, entertainment, information and achievement for people of all ages in agriculture.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
Operate and maintain the county fair, grounds, and related activities in stevens county, mn
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
The organization is an interfaith group responding to people with housing needs and working with groups to help create, locate, and enter affordable housing.
Provide grants to the state university of iowa foundation in accordance with exempt purpose, which in turn grants funds to the state university of iowa.
The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.
The stark county historical society is dedicated to collecting and preserving the significant materials and records related to the history of stark county and the presidential history of william mckinley. through the mckinley presidential…
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available…
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business
To foster the science and art of natural resource conservation. our work targets conservation of soil, water and related natural resources on working land-the land used to produce food, fiber, and other services that improve the quality of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Pathways of Steele County and the most unlike its peers is MicrobeTV 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 48 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 UNITED WAY OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Steele County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWATONNA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PATHWAYS OF STEELE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MicrobeTV Inc ↗
- Who funds STEELE COUNTY CLOTHESLINE INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Gandrud 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.