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Gold Bay Foundation co Kerrie Blevins Consulting
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Gold Bay Foundation co Kerrie Blevins Consulting’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Gold Bay Foundation co Kerrie Blevins Consulting named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $900k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of MN ND SD | $250,000 |
| New Venture Fund | $150,000 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $150,000 |
| Pro Publica | $150,000 |
| Earthjustice | $150,000 |
| Minnesota Council On Foundations | $100,000 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $100,000 |
| Conservation Minnesota | $100,000 |
| Temple of Israel | $10,000 |
| St Croix River Association | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Orchestra | $10,000 |
| MacPhail Center for Music | $5,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $5,000 |
| Friends of Hennepin County Library | $5,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE3× · 2017–2019 · $350k · revenue +101%
EARTHJUSTICE3× · 2017–2019 · $350k · revenue +82%
PRO PUBLICA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $350k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- AFAlliance for a Better MN Edu Fundone grant, 2018 · $159k
- CFCENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +154%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +7%
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.
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
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…
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…
The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. 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.
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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 48 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Voice ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Council on Foundations ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds Instituto Lab ↗
- Who funds WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FILMNORTH ↗
- Who funds SCANDIA HERITAGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · New Venture Fund · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · The Nash Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation
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 Gold Bay Foundation co Kerrie Blevins Consulting 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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