· Private foundation
Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council
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 $10k7 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WONDERTEK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BRAINERD LAKES AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| NORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC | $186 |
| PINE RIVER-BACKUS PTO | $100 |
| PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER | $100 |
| XERCES SOCIETY INC | $75 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TREMPEALEAU LIBRARY | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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 74% of Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council’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, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 26% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411 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
- WCWONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +394%
- KPKINSHIP PARTNERS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
- PRPINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- MFMINNESOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $200k
- LELatino Economic Development Centerone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -78%
- FSFRESHWATER SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue -42%
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.
To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
Lakeland pbs' mission is to educate, entertain, enrich and enlighten our "community" with the programming we produce right here in northern minnesota and the nationally available programming we choose to air on our channels. lakeland pbs'…
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
Promote economic sustainability and break the cycle of poverty by providing native people with access to the capital and financial services healthy communities need to flourish.
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freshwater Society and the most unlike its peers is Pine River Watershed Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 WONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Latino Economic Development Center ↗
- Who funds FRESHWATER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds PINE RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LAKES PTA ↗
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 · C K Blandin Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Anderson Family Legacy Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Initiative Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% 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.