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Garden Valley Education Foundation at a glance

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Garden Valley Education 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Education$176kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEARBROOK-GONVICK SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
GOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
THIEF RIVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
WIN-E-MAC SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS$5,000
WARREN-ALVARADO-OSLO SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
BAGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$4,903
FOUNDATION FOR RURAL SERVICE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%GOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%BAGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%FOSSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR RURAL SERVICE: $500 → 7%GOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%BAGLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 11%FOSSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT 447: $5k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR RURAL SERVICE: $500 → 7%THIEF RIVER FALLS: $5k → 10%RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%BAGLEY SCHOOL: $5k → 11%FOSSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT 447: $5k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR RURAL SERVICE: $500 → 7%THIEF RIVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%BAGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%WIN-E-MAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 17%RED LAKE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%CLEARBROOK GONVICK SCHOOL: $5k → 11%WIN-E-MAC SCHOOL: $5k → 11%GOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 17%RED LAKE FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%CLEARBROOK-GONVICK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%WIN-E-MAC SCHOOL: $5k → 11%RED LAKE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 10%CLEARBROOK-GONVICK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%WIN-E-MAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%RED LAKE FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%FERTILE BELTRAMI PUBLIC SCHOOL: $5k → 11%FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%FERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%FERTILE-BELTRAMI PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 11%WARREN-ALVARADO-OSLO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 14 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$141k
$30k

Still filing today

7%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • RL
    RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS
    3× · 2017–2024 · $15k
  • GS
    GOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2017–2024 · $15k
  • GS
    GRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT 447
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k

Funded once

  • FB
    FERTILE BELTRAMI PUBLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • CG
    CLEARBROOK GONVICK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • RL
    RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS: $15,000 · OtherRED LAKE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLSGOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,000 · OtherGOODRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICTGRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT 447: $10,000 · OtherGRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT 447BAGLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBAGLEY SCHOOLFERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherFERTILE-BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICTGRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherGRYGLA SCHOOL DISTRICTRED LAKE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherRED LAKE FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICTWIN-E-MAC SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherWIN-E-MAC SCHOOLRED LAKE FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherRED LAKE FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLSCLEARBROOK-GONVICK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherCLEARBROOK-GONVICK SCHOOL DISTRICTWIN-E-MAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherWIN-E-MAC SCHOOL DISTRICTFOSSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherFOSSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSBAGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9,903 · OtherBAGLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT+8 more: $40,000 · Other+8 moreFoundation For Rural Service: $1,500 · Education
Other$179,903Education$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation For Rural Service: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Foundation For Rural Service ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Garden Valley Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Garden Valley Education 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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