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George Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
166
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.9MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$3.7MEnvironment$1.5MArts & Culture$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MReligion$1.1MCivil Rights$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $185k
  • $10k–50k103 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF THE NORTH$1,038,245
DUKE UNIVERSITY$300,000
1440 MULTIVERSITY$200,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HAVARD COLLEGE$163,846
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$110,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$100,000
GUTHRIE THEATER$100,000
INTERFAITH AMERICA$75,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES$75,000
WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER$70,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$56,441
FAMILY TREE CLINIC$53,250
Individual grant recipient$50,000
AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$50,000
CENTER ON FAITH AND JUSTICE AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIRLVENTURES: $10k → 10%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $10k → 21%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%GIRLVENTURES: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 14%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $25k → 21%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%GIRLVENTURES: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $15k → 11%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $20k → 21%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%GIRLVENTURES: $10k → 10%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $25k → 21%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $25k → 21%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $23k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $14k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $18k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $25k → 17%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $18k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $15k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $15k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS PATHWAYS: $15k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $1.0M → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $1.0M → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $1.0M → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $400k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $350k → 11%POETIC: $20k → 14%POETIC: $20k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $17k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $13k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $12k → 11%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 47% of George Family 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, 57% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 26% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

George Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 151 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

151 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151
62

Total granted

$19M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+9%

Still filing today

85%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +31%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $974k · revenue +49%
  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $552k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $525k
  • T1
    THE 1440 FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +135%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH CENTRAL STATES
    one grant, 2022 · $79k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
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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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
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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5
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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6
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
7
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
8
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
9
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The 1440 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…School District FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%11%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr18%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr18%38%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/204
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,785

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.

05the grantee network

199 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. 199 of the 256 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/199
Grantees still filing
126/199
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $974,109 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $831,420 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $551,609 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION I…University of St Thomas — $433,284 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $278,100 · EducationMarnitas Table Inc — $250,000 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINS — $220,000 · EducationSigma Chi Foundation — $200,000 · Education+23 more — $1,558,068 · Education+23 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $3,833,254 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN AS…+14 more — $1,006,118 · Human Services+14 moreMAYO CLINIC — $525,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICSojourners Inc — $375,000 · OtherSojourners Inc1440 MULTIVERSITY — $249,908 · OtherON BEING PROJECT — $300,000 · Other+93 more — $5,491,770 · Other+93 moreMAYO CLINIC — $1,028,100 · HealthMAYO CLINICPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $250,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…ACADEMY OF INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & MEDICINE — $200,000 · HealthACADEMY OF …Family Tree Inc — $187,850 · HealthFamily Tree…CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $170,218 · HealthCULTURAL WE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $120,000 · HealthUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN — $100,000 · Health+9 more — $367,068 · Health+9 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $410,000 · PhilanthropyTHE 1440 FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365 — $150,000 · PhilanthropyACADEMIC CONSORTIUM FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH INC — $133,509 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $123,100 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $69,500 · Philanthropy+7 more — $127,325 · PhilanthropyGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $454,568 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $171,700 · Arts & CultureEnriching Lives Through Music — $112,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $78,100 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $110,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $477,500 · EnvironmentEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $110,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $98,850 · EnvironmentVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $92,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION CORPS — $90,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $85,600 · EnvironmentBetty Ford Alpine Gardens — $50,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION MINNESOTA — $45,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $40,000 · Environment+2 more — $40,000 · Environment
Education$5,296,590Human Services$4,839,372Other$6,941,678Health$2,423,236Philanthropy$1,563,434Arts & Culture$1,201,868Environment$1,129,450

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $3,833,254 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $1,028,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $974,109 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $831,420 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $551,609 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $477,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $454,568 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $433,284 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $410,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE 1440 FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSojourners Inc — $375,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetON BEING PROJECT — $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $278,100 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMarnitas Table Inc — $250,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA — $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS — $220,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation — $200,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetACADEMY OF INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & MEDICINE — $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC — $188,100 over 5y, 17% of budgetFamily Tree Inc — $187,850 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $171,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $170,218 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTERGAR INTERNATIONAL — $163,850 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeta Psi Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365 — $150,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMindful Life Project — $148,509 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $145,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOMALI SUCCESS SCHOOL — $145,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $143,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $138,509 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMIND & LIFE INSTITUTE — $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetACADEMIC CONSORTIUM FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH INC — $133,509 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $128,509 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $123,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC — $122,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEnd In Mind Project — $120,600 over 4y, 76% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES — $120,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetIRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION — $115,600 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $113,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $112,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $111,350 over 5y, 2.3% of budget
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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE 1440 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
  • Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds Marnitas Table Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY OF INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TERGAR INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Beta Psi Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
  • Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds SOMALI SUCCESS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMIC CONSORTIUM FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH INC ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mortenson Family Foun…Pohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…YouthpriseOtto Bremer TrustTarget FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Women's Foundation of…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN70.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Youthprise · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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 George Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to George Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 256 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home