· Private foundation
James T Nystrom Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $6,000 |
| PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE | $6,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $5,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA | $4,000 |
| PROMISES2KIDS | $4,000 |
| EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CWCALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW9× · 2017–2025 · $674k · revenue +10%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +302%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- EIEARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC - SERENGETI WATCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- YOYWCA OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -21%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The minnesota zoo foundation raises contributed income and supports conservation and animal care programs on behalf of the minnesota zoo. the mission of the minnesota zoo is to connect people, animals, and the natural world to save…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Top Dog Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 90 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 CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds Natures Edge Therapy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACRES FOR LIFE - THERAPY & WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The K Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Longview Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 James T Nystrom 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.