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Granite Foundation Agency (Plg)
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $318k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL FESTIVAL & HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $90,471 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| 30 DAYS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $40,000 |
| MN STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $30,505 |
| CHURCH OF CORPUS CHRISTI | $30,000 |
| ROSEVILLE AREA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,150 |
| LA PAZ GLOBAL | $25,000 |
| THE NEXT EDISON | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS LACROSSE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,146 |
| DAN AND COLLETTE HAGEN | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE'S MECIAL RESEARCH | $12,188 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,565 |
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 (FY21–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k 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
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $112k · revenue +158%
- MAMOTHER AFRICA2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +63%
- HIHOPE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $71k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MFMAINS'L FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +792% · 57% of their budget
The Ocean Foundationone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -30%- CACURE ADDICTION NOW CANone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +17%
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 provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Next Edison. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 335 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
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
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER AFRICA ↗
- Who funds TILLY'S LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SAFARI CLUB ↗
- Who funds 30-DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT EDISON ↗
- Who funds MAINS'L FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CURE ADDICTION NOW CAN ↗
- Who funds La Paz Global ↗
- Who funds THOMAS IRVINE DODGE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMENS JOURNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF THE ROYAL GUARD INC ↗
- Who funds WISEPLACE ↗
- Who funds ACH RIDGEVIEW FDN SHARE R ↗
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: Pledgeling Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Slaggie Family Foundation · The Poses Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Orange County · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The K Foundation · Greater Horizons · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Granite Foundation Agency (Plg) 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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