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Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation
The mission of the GREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to inspire philanthropy and enrich the lives of people who live in the communities that share the shores of white bear lake.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Communitygiving, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $203k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $203,341 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $274,597 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,256 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SPRINGS CHURCH | $36,000 |
| MAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
| WHITE BEAR AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,500 |
| WHITE BEAR LAKE EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF | $17,341 |
| LAKE LINKS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA | $10,000 |
| INITIATIVE FOR ORCHESTRA INNOVATION | $10,000 |
| LAKESHORE PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE SAFARI | $10,000 |
| MAHTOMEDI AREA FOOD SHELF | $7,700 |
| ST ANDREW'S COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS | $6,500 |
| NEWTRAX | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $526k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 67% of Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 29% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- NINEWTRAX INC5× · 2020–2024 · $465k · revenue +77%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +1%- WBWHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +352%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MAHTOMEDIone grant, 2020 · $120k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAULone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +2%
- UAUND Alumni Association and Foundationone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +16%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Initiative for Orchestra Innovation. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 41 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
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 COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEWTRAX INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LYNGBLOMSTEN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE AREA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Warren Community Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Initiative for Orchestra Innovation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds Rise Up Health Clinics ↗
- Who funds WHITE BEAR LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BRAILLE EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Osilas Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Paul and Suzanne Hanifl Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen 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 Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation 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.
- Guadalupe Center 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.