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Gaylord Game Protection League

The conservation and improvement of the natural resources of the state, protection of all wild life except predators, the propagation of game animals, game birds and fish.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
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 2024.

Public Benefit$120kAnimals$58kEducation$58kEnvironment$47kRecreation & Sports$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kReligion$6kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$326k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF WINTHROP$20,000
CITY OF GAYLORD$11,400
CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA$7,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER$7,000
PEACE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$6,000
SIBLEY EAST SCHOOL DISTRICT #2310$5,225
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOLS- ISD #2310: $17k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $13k → 14%USA MIDWAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOLS- ISD #2310: $11k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $12k → 14%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOLS- ISD #2310: $10k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $7k → 14%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOLS- ISD #2310: $8k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $7k → 14%CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $7k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $7k → 14%CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $6k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $6k → 14%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOLS- ISD #2310: $6k → 8%PHEASANTS FOREVER: $6k → 14%SIBLEY EAST SCHOOL DISTRICT #2310: $5k → 8%VETERANS ON THE WATER: $5k → 8%VETERANS ON THE WATER: $5k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $20k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $17k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $15k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $14k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $6k → 8%CITY OF WINTHROP: $6k → 8%PEACE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6k → 8%CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $13k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $12k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $11k → 8%CPA CENTRAL SIBLEY CHAPTER: $11k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $10k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $9k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $9k → 8%CITY OF GAYLORD: $7k → 8%CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%CONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$307k · 7 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$307k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+89%

Still filing today

43%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF WINTHROP
    6× · 2018–2024 · $78k
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +77%
  • SE
    SIBLEY EAST SCHOOL DIST #2310
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k

Funded once

  • MU
    MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +89%
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

4 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. 4 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF WINTHROP: $78,000 · OtherCITY OF WINTHROPPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $57,700 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER INCSIBLEY EAST SCHOOL DIST #2310: $57,642 · OtherSIBLEY EAST SCHOOL DIST #2310CITY OF GAYLORD: $57,485 · OtherCITY OF GAYLORDCONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA: $33,500 · OtherCONSERVATION PARTNERS OF AMERICA+1 more: $6,000 · OtherConservation Partners of America: $13,000 · EnvironmentVeterans on the Water: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$290,327Environment$13,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $57,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Partners of America: $13,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetVeterans on the Water: $10,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetMIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds Conservation Partners of America ↗
  • Who funds Veterans on the Water ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY USA FOUNDATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Gaylord Game Protection League?

    Find your warmest path to Gaylord Game Protection League 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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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