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Graywolf Press

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

$28k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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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…

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5
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
6
Milkweed Editions Inc

To identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Arts & Culture
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
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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9
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
10
Environmental Initiative

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

Environment
11
Women in Cable Telecommunications

The wict network develops women leaders who transform our industry.

Community Improvement
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…MINNESOTA HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK: $5,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA HEALING JU…SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL AREA CHAM…JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS I…National Book Critics Circle: $250 · Arts & Culture
Education$6,500Philanthropy$6,000Human Services$5,000Other$5,000Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA HEALING JUSTICE NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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 budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The McKnight Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Graywolf Press funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graywolf Press. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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