How much did GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

distributioneducationbuildaction

2020

distribution scholarshipscross countrylearngrowkeewatinimprovementtrail

2021

deer lakeenvironmentcrisis medicalwaterlake dlasports recreationcrisis transportation

2022

legalclientsrightsclothingexperiencingeconomicsports recreation

2023

health well-beingcrisissports recreationfoundedyouth healthyhousingdistribution

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $161k
$10k–50k24 grants · $620k
$50k–250k4 grants · $328k

$11,780

Median grant

States reached

$34M

Total assets

Largest grants

WABANA TOWNSHIP$128,446
SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD$84,408
ITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC$60,044
ELDERCIRCLE$55,153
FIRST CALL FOR HELP 211$43,777
GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE$42,430
INDEPENDEND SCHOOL DISTRICT 318$42,419
ITASCA AREA CANCER CRISIS ENDOWMENT$40,400
GRAND ITASCA FOUNDATION$37,942
DISTRICT 318 ENDOWMENT FUND$36,996
GRAND RAPIDS AREA LIBRARY FOUND$36,326
ITASCA ORCHESTRA AND STRINGS$35,143
ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA$29,032
CITY OF DEER RIVER$27,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS$26,558

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $587k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.3M · 56 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.3M

$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+10%

Still filing today

64%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

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Second Harvest North Central Food Bank
8× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +70%
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SPARK
5× · 2020–2024 · $303k · revenue +54%
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ElderCircle
7× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue +15%

Funded once

IC
Itasca Community College Foundation
one grant, 2019 · $89k · revenue -26%
GR
GRAND RAPIDS BAND BOOSTERS
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +10%
IC
ITASCA COUNTY HRA
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

Cloquet Nordic Ski Club

Recreation & Sports

Minnesota Rural Water Association

Mrwa provides professional on-site technical assistance and training to water and waste water system personnel in managerial, financial, operation and maintenance, source water and wellhead protection issues.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Historical Society

Using the power of history to transform lives through educational initiatives, history exhibitions and programs, historic preservation, accessibility to a network of historic sites, publications of Minnesota historical content and archival…

Arts & Culture

North Dakota Natural Resources

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Red Wing Arts Association

Our mission is to build a vibrant community fueled by the arts. We enrich lives by connecting, celebrating, inspiring, and leading through shared art experiences. Our vision is a community alive with creativity.

Arts & Culture

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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Run Minnesota

To serve the running community and support runners of all ages and abilities through education, programs, and advocacy. specifically, by developing educational resources and training programs that support and empower runners, facilitating…

Youth Development

MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture

Thief River Falls Amatuer Hockey

Promotion of Youth Athletics in the Sport of Hockey

Recreation & Sports

Tailwinds Bemidji

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Minnesota Hunter & Jumper Association

The minnesota hunter & jumper association's purpose is to support the hunter/jumper sport in the state of minnesota. our goals are to foster a community of hunter/jumper enthusiasts, strengthen local competition at all levels, represent…

Recreation & Sports

Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Itasca County Family Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Minds Learning Center. 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 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/98

the rest of the field

28/472

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

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/55

Grantees still filing

38/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,751,514Human Services$586,740Health$449,244Community Improvement$438,030Arts & Culture$323,037Animals$201,545Youth Development$198,058

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.

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.

C K Blandin FoundationMN70× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: C K Blandin Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · United Way of 1000 Lakes · Second Harvest North Central Food Bank · Second Harvest Northland · Smdc Medical Center · Duluth-Superior Area Community · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way of Ne Minnesota · Communitygiving

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 organisation GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Grand Rapids Area Library Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200176950 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Grand Rapids Area Library Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Grand Rapids Area Community?

Find your warmest path to Grand Rapids Area Community through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Rapids Area Community?

More from the funding graph

GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Grand Rapids Area Community?

More from the funding graph