· Private foundation
Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Austin Youth Hockey Incorporated | $6,000 |
| Austin Club League Baseball Inc | $5,500 |
| Mower County Humane Society | $5,000 |
| Math Masters of Minnesota | $4,000 |
| Austin Symphony Orchestra Society Inc | $4,000 |
| Southern Minnesota Women Center | $3,000 |
| Brownsdale Volunteer Fire Department | $3,000 |
| Marcusen Park Baseball Association | $3,000 |
| Riverside Figure Skating Club | $3,000 |
| Austin Junior All-Star Baseball Inc | $3,000 |
| Youth Football Inc | $3,000 |
| Riverland Community College Foundation | $3,000 |
| Southern Minnesota Education Consortium | $3,000 |
| Friends of the Library | $3,000 |
| Austin Youth Basketball Corporation | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- ASAUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%
- MCMOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +25%
- RCRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AYAustin Youth Soccerone grant, 2024 · $3k
- UWUNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -6%
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 promote agricultural, horticultural and mechanical arts in the community by maintaining and utilizing the mower county fairgrounds for the benefit of the community.
To promote the economic, civil, industrial and cultural growth of austin, minnesota and the surrounding area.
The mission of MRC is to teach rowing and sculling, and to train its members and others for amateur competitive events and recreational exercise.
Promote shooting sports, gun safety, and sportsmanship and support area youth programs.
The minnesota youth soccer association promotes the game of soccer for all youth in minnesota. we promote the importance of education, self-esteem, diversity and teamwork in a safe, fun environment, allowing players to develop to their…
We empower youth to be joyful, confident winter enthusiasts by building inclusive communities that reduce barriers to cross-country skiing.
Amateur sports - bowling
To encourage the instruction, practice & advancement of the members in the discipline of figure skating. To encourage the fraternal feeling among ice skaters & cooperate to produce amateur events.
To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, horticulture, the art of flower arranging, garden history and design and photography; to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through action in the field of…
Preserve railroad history provide exhibits of model railroading hobby depict history of toy trains manufacturing and the hobby
The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Mower County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATH MASTERS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YOUTH BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds BROWNSDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 91 ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN JUNIOR ALL-STAR BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUSEN PARK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MINNESOTA WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MATCHBOX CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MOWER COUNTY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOWER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
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: Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Mower County Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Minnesota Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Geo A Hormel Testamentary Trust 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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