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GRAYWOLF PRESS publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.

$28k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHSIDE FUNDERS GROUP CO THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$5,000
MIGIZI COMMUNICATIONS$5,000
ST PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$5,000
JUXTAPOSITION ARTS$5,000
MN HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK$5,000
BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,500
BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (BINC)$1,000
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE (NBCC)$250
02The need
02

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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MN HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK: $5k → 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.

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 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
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
2
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
3
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
4
University of Minnesota Alumni Association

The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…

5
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…

6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

7
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
8
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
9
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…

10
Minnesota Private College Fund

The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

Education
11
Women in Cable Telecommunications

The wict network develops women leaders who transform our industry.

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Black Collective Foundation

Our mission is to build Black philanthropic power to strengthen the ecosystem of Black-led social, political, and economic change in Minnesota and beyond.

Philanthropy

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

03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIGIZI Communications Inc — $5,000 · EducationMIGIZI Communications IncBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY A…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATI…BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE…JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS I…SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAM…MINNESOTA HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK — $5,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA HEALING JU…National Book Critics Circle — $250 · Arts & Culture
Education$6,500Philanthropy$6,000Youth Development$5,000Other$5,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$250

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 budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The McKnight FoundationMN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Graywolf Press 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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