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Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation at a glance

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Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

International$2.4MHealth$1.8MFood & Nutrition$643kEnvironment$565kHousing & Shelter$522kHuman Services$193kYouth Development$150kReligion$108kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Regions Hospital Foundation$500,000
Alight$200,000
Childrens Surgery Intl$200,000
Haiti Outreach$100,000
Naples Retreat$100,000
TPT$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Naples Retreat: $100k → 10%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Elpis Enterprises: $5k → 14%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%WeCan: $10k → 11%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%We Can: $10k → 11%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%We Can: $10k → 11%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%WeCan: $10k → 11%The Link: $10k → 11%The Link: $10k → 11%The Link: $10k → 11%The Link: $10k → 11%The Link: $10k → 11%The Link: $8k → 11%The Link: $8k → 11%The Link: $5k → 11%Doing Good Together: $5k → 11%Doing Good Together: $3k → 11%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 27% of Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 82%.

Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 40 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
10

Total granted

$4.8M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+32%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $885k · revenue +79%
  • A
    ALIGHT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $656k · revenue +24%
  • MF
    MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SH
    SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +199%
  • SH
    Simpson House
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
  • P
    Paramount
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
2
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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4
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
5
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
6
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
7
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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8
Hired

Hired's mission is to nurture purpose and advance economic opportunity for all through individualized employment and career services. as a workforce development agency, hired provides direct employment counseling, career training, and…

Employment
9
Habitat for Humanity of So Cent Mn Inc

Help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.

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10
Family Pathways

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.

Human Services
11
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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12
Missions Inc Programs

See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Serving People Inc; the most unlike its peers is Naples Retreat Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 52 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,640,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL: $885,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONALALIGHT: $656,000 · InternationalALIGHTHAITI OUTREACH INC: $500,000 · InternationalHAITI OUTREACH INCMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC: $375,000 · InternationalMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INCMRD Inc: $170,000 · OtherMRD IncIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSecond Harvest: $115,000 · OtherSecond HarvestCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $87,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLBridging Inc: $75,000 · OtherLA OPORTUNIDAD INC: $65,000 · OtherPROP: $62,500 · OtherTanzania Project: $60,000 · OtherCatholic Charities: $60,000 · OtherAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $105,000 · OtherAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES I…+25 more: $499,000 · Other+25 moreTANZANIA LIFE PROJECT: $220,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $87,000 · EnvironmentNaples Retreat Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE LINK: $70,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesElpis Enterprises: $35,000 · Human ServicesDOING GOOD TOGETHER: $32,500 · Human ServicesHOPE COMMUNITY INC: $77,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $72,000 · Housing & ShelterST DAVID'S CENTER: $120,000 · Youth Development
Health$2,525,000International$1,531,000Other$1,564,000Environment$482,000Human Services$277,500Housing & Shelter$149,500Youth Development$120,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,640,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL: $885,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetALIGHT: $656,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC: $500,000 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC: $375,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTANZANIA LIFE PROJECT: $220,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $175,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $87,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC: $77,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBridging Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $72,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LINK: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLA OPORTUNIDAD INC: $65,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetOUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetElpis Enterprises: $35,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetDOING GOOD TOGETHER: $32,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds HAITI OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TANZANIA LIFE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Naples Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LINK ↗
  • Who funds LA OPORTUNIDAD INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Elpis Enterprises ↗
  • Who funds DOING GOOD TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Andersen Corporate Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Sheltering Arms F…Kopp Family FoundationThe Walser FoundationMedica FoundationTarget Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Kopp Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Medica Foundation · Target Foundation

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 Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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