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Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc

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.

$576k
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.

Community Improvement$418kRecreation & Sports$88kEducation$76kPhilanthropy$62kHuman Services$42kHealth$40kArts & Culture$25kPublic Benefit$19kReligion$14kOther$363k
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k114 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$120,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$63,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN$40,000
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA INC$30,000
ST CLOUD TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$15,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE$10,000
PCD KS FOUNDATION$10,000
INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION$5,000
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MID MN CYCLING CLUB$5,000
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE$5,000
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 (FY23–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZ: $1k → 12%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD: $2k → 11%ANNA MARIES ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $1k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NE
VA
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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$731k · 48 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
10

Total granted

$731k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +8%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • SC
    ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • MS
    MIKE SILVA EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -42%
  • YC
    YOUTH CHORALE OF CENTRAL MINNESOTAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +30%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -79%

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.

1
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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2
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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3
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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4
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
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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7
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
8
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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11
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners Inc. 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 backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Public Charter SchoolsProfessional Association Ne…Firefighter Pension Associa…Senior Housing and Care Ser…Christian Ministry SupportCommunity Development Organ…Business & Economic Develop…Healthcare & Education Foun…Family Philanthropic Founda…Community Theater & Perform…Youth Empowerment & Develop…
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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%7%<5yr12%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr18%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%43%35–55yr18%21%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,899

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.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
43/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $260,000 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE FOUNDATIONGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $140,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION+2 more — $17,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $149,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTABIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN — $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MNSt Cloud Area Family YMCA — $17,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL — $16,000 · Other+49 more — $138,750 · Other+49 moreACTIVE CENTRAL MN — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsMid Mn Cycling Club — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $3,150 · Recreation & SportsST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $38,000 · EducationST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT — $9,000 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC — $6,000 · Education+5 more — $5,500 · EducationCOMMUNITYGIVING — $44,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $7,500 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE — $7,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $12,000 · Human ServicesPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $3,000 · Human ServicesPROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKS — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesPCD KS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 · HealthTEREBINTH REFUGE — $2,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $2,000 · Health+4 more — $2,354 · Health
Community Improvement$417,500Other$421,250Recreation & Sports$88,150Education$75,500Philanthropy$62,000Human Services$42,000Health$39,854

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $149,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $140,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN — $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetACTIVE CENTRAL MN — $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING — $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPCD KS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSt Cloud Area Family YMCA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $10,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE — $10,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIKE SILVA EVANGELISM INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUGAAD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM — $6,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL MN COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid Mn Cycling Club — $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MINNESOTA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCELEBRATE MINNESOTA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CHORALE OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT JOHNS BOYS CHOIR — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PINE GROVE ZOO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJosiah Venture — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST INC CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWIRTH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEREBINTH REFUGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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.

CommunitygivingRick and Helga Bauerl…Morgan Family Foundat…Initiative FoundationUnited Way of Central…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Central Minnesota Art…Ja Wedum FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…
CommunitygivingMN71.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Ja Wedum Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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 Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc 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 · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc?

Find your warmest path to Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc 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 94 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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