· Private foundation
Inter City Oil Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN STAR SCOUTING | $2,500 |
| SUPERIOR PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| DULUTH EAST YOUTH FOOTBALL | $1,000 |
| ST LOUIS RIVER QUEST | $1,000 |
| SUPERIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CATHEDRAL SCHOOL - SUPERIOR WISCONSIN | $500 |
| NORTHWESTERN TIGERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RIRICHARD I BONG VETERANS HISTORICAL CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- SHSecond Harvest Northlandgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +80%
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEMone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -13%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF SUPERIORone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…
Religious Programming
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition.
To discover, preserve, and disseminate the historical knowledge of st. louis county and the state of minnesota through archival and museum services.
Improving access to and the effectiveness of services through facilitation and coordination of community services and provision of information and referral services.
The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Damiano of Duluth Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Louis River Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 30 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 NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD MUSUEM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 71 ↗
- Who funds St Louis River Alliance ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Campbell Family Charitable Trust · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Northland Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Inter City Oil 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.