· Private foundation
Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Regions Hospital Foundation | $500,000 |
| Alight | $200,000 |
| Childrens Surgery Intl | $200,000 |
| Haiti Outreach | $100,000 |
| Naples Retreat | $100,000 |
| TPT | $5,000 |
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, $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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- CSCHILDREN'S SURGERY INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $885k · revenue +79%
- AALIGHT8× · 2018–2025 · $656k · revenue +24%
- MFMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +199%
- SHSimpson Houseone grant, 2017 · $18k
- PParamountone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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…
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…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
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.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
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…
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…
Help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter.
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Serving People Inc and 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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 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 WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SAVIOUR'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Jim & Yvonne Sexton Family 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.