· Private foundation
Groves Foundation
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 $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Groves Academy (GLO) | $75,000 |
| AccessAbility Inc | $75,000 |
| Shriners Childrens - Twin Cities | $50,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $35,000 |
| We Can Ride Inc | $21,000 |
| Urban Boat Builders | $15,000 |
| Augsburg University | $15,000 |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $10,000 |
| Fraser | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Private College Fund | $10,000 |
| Irondale - FRC Team 2052 | $10,000 |
| We Can Ride Inc | $8,548 |
| We Can Ride Inc | $5,500 |
| True Friends | $5,000 |
| Reach For Resources Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GAGROVES ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $438k · revenue +36%
- AIACCESSABILITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $397k · revenue +52%
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SHShriners Healthcare For Children - TCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UOUniversity of Minnesotaone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SHShriners Hospital for Children - Twin Citiesone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.
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…
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Service enterprises, inc. of minnesota through effective partnerships, provides quality vocational training, job opportunities, habilitative and other services to individuals with disabilities to promote their independence and active…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
We see and honor the personhood and autonomy of autistic and neurodivergent individuals. we work every day to educate and guide micc participants in creating and sustaining the lives they want to live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach for Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Augsburg University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ACCESSABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WE CAN RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds BLINDNESS-LEARNING IN NEW DIMENSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds NoticeAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K 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 Groves 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.
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.