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Howard Family Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northside Residents Redevelopment Council | $1,000 |
| We Care Solar | $1,000 |
| Alliance Francaise Mpls St Paul | $800 |
| Como Snowsports Booster Club | $650 |
| Fred Wells Tennis and Education Cnt | $500 |
| Samos Volunteers Syrian refugees | $500 |
| Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Cnt | $500 |
| Annunciation House | $500 |
| Carleton College | $400 |
| Our Justice | $400 |
| Family Tree Clinic | $400 |
| Planned Parenthood | $400 |
| Family Pathways | $300 |
| Century College | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WCWE CARE SOLAR4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +103%
- PSPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +287%
- WRWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CWCycling Withoug Age Twin Citiesone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +137%
- MJMONARCH JOINT VENTUREgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +196%
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.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Serving People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Century College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds Family Pathways ↗
- Who funds FRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE RESIDENTS REDEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MPLS-ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds OUR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ST CROIX ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
- Who funds CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Howard Family Fund 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.
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