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Genfinity Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$95kHealth$30kEnvironment$20kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$20kRecreation & Sports$9kAnimals$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB$12,000
MN DENTAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE PARKS$5,000
MARSHALL SCHOOL$5,000
NORTH WOODS SCHOOL$2,500
BIG CITY MOUNTAINERS$2,500
MINDS MATTER COLORADO$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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MN DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%MILLER DWAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $5k → 17%KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT INIT: $50k → 11%BIG CITY MOUNTAINERS: $5k → 7%MINDS MATTER COLORADO: $500 → 12%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $5k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%MN DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%UNITED WAY OF NE MN: $20k → 15%CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMP INITIATIVE: $15k → 11%BIG CITY MOUNTAINERS: $3k → 7%THE GATHERING PLACE: $5k → 12%MARSHALL SCHOOL: $5k → 15%COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $12k → 7%ANIMAL ALLIES: $5k → 15%MARSHALL SCHOOL: $5k → 15%STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS: $12k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE PARKS: $5k → 15%ASHAWA SKI TRAIL CLUB: $4k → 15%NORTH WOODS SCHOOL: $3k → 15%VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $10k → 15%VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $10k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MN
NY
IA
CO
VA
FL
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 6 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$125k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +268% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • KE
    KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT INIT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • KE
    KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMP INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
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
3
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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6
Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
7
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment
8
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
9
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
10
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Mountain Club; the most unlike its peers is Volunteers in Education. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT INIT: $50,000 · OtherKIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT INITCROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherCROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTAKIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMP INITIATIVE: $15,000 · OtherKIJANA EDUCATIONAL EMP INITIATIVETHE MARSHALL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMN DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $26,593 · Other+6 moreTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE COLORA…BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS: $5,000 · EnvironmentBACKCOUNTR…Ducks Unlimited Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unli…MINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA …VOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $20,000 · EducationBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $500 · Youth Development
Other$208,593Environment$27,000Education$20,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Civil Rights$5,000Health$5,000Human Services$5,000Youth Development$500

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 budgetVOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARSHALL SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $500 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.

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.

Duluth-Superior Area …The Minneapolis Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Genfinity Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Genfinity Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Genfinity Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Genfinity Foundation Inc 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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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