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Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$200kArts & Culture$56kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kCommunity Improvement$1kEnvironment$950Education$800Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$186
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 FAMILY CENTER$100
PINE RIVER-BACKUS PTO$100
XERCES SOCIETY INC$75
FRIENDS OF THE TREMPEALEAU LIBRARY$50
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $125 → 10%WONDERTEK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25k → 11%BRAINERD LAKES AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $350 → 11%NORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $186 → 11%CASS COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $345 → 12%DEEP PORTAGE LEARNING CENTER: $500 → 14%FRESHWATER SOCIETY: $750 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE TREMPEALEAU LIBRARY: $50 → 9%XERCES SOCIETY INC: $75 → 12%WONDERTEK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25k → 11%BRAINERD LAKES AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 14%KINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $2k → 11%PINE RIVER BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%KINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $2k → 11%NORTHLAND ARBOETUM: $538 → 14%KINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%WONDERTEK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LAKE AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $250 → 14%KINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $1k → 11%PINE RIVER BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $175 → 14%LAKE AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $500 → 11%PINE RIVER MARKET SQUARE: $125 → 14%LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $500 → 11%PINE RIVER BACKUS SCHOOLS: $100 → 14%WONDERTEK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $375 → 11%PINE RIVER BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $100 → 14%BRAINERD YMCA: $250 → 11%PINE RIVER-BACKUS PTO: $100 → 14%PINE RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE: $100 → 11%CROSSLAKE AREA SENIOR SERVICES: $100 → 14%PINE RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE: $100 → 11%PINE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100 → 14%LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CROSS: $500 → 11%PINE RIVER BACKUS SCHOOLS: $100 → 14%PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $100 → 14%CASS COUNTY 4H FEDERATION: $50 → 14%CASS COUNTY 4H FEDERATION: $50 → 14%PEQUOT LAKES PTA: $50 → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 74% of Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 26%.

Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 9 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$66k
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-42%

Still filing today

78%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyScience & TechAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    WONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +394%
  • KP
    KINSHIP PARTNERS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • PR
    PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • MF
    MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • LE
    Latino Economic Development Center
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -78%
  • FS
    FRESHWATER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue -42%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Lake Superior Center

To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.

Environment
2
Northern Minnesota Public Television Inc

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'…

Arts & Culture
3
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
4
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
5
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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6
Gathering Waters Inc

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…

Environment
7
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
9
West Central Initiative

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.

Philanthropy
10
The Lakota Fund Incorporated

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.

Community Improvement
11
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.

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12
Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freshwater Society; 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.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherMINNESOTA FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION+17 more: $10,969 · OtherWONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $51,375 · Arts & CultureWONDERTREK CHILDREN'S …LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterLatino Economic Development Center: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterPINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING: $600 · PhilanthropyFRESHWATER SOCIETY: $750 · Science & TechINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $125 · Community ImprovementXERCES SOCIETY INC: $75 · Animals
Other$210,969Arts & Culture$53,375Housing & Shelter$3,000Philanthropy$2,600Science & Tech$750Community Improvement$125Animals$75

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $51,375 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetKINSHIP PARTNERS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER: $2,625 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLatino Economic Development Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHWATER SOCIETY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE: $200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $186 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEQUOT LAKES PTA: $50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds WONDERTREK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KINSHIP PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE RIVER-BACKUS FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…C K Blandin FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…CommunitygivingOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…The Anderson Family L…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Initiative FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Happy Dancing Turtle Dba Resilient Living Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 27 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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