How much did JOHN AND DENISE GRAVES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of JOHN AND DENISE GRAVES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

educational equityparentpartnership permanencegenhhmfc collaborativecollaborative tenantstenants rights

2020

covid responseresponse housingminneapolisleaders

2021

staffcovid responsecollectivepangea theaterlake truthrapid responseneighborhood

2022

thriverapid responseachieve twinminneapoliscatholicperispropel nonprofits

2023

handabove rimadvancing equityachieve twinaccesslake streetwildflyer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $80k
$10k–50k40 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$48M

Total assets

Largest grants

YOUTHPRISE$250,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH$190,000
VENN FOUNDATION$150,000
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES$83,316
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$75,000
PERIS FOUNDATION$65,000
YOUTHPRISE$60,000
EDUCATORS 4 EXCELLENCE$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES TWIN CITIES$50,000
FOSTER ADVOCATES$50,000
EDUCATION EVOLVING$50,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE AND LIVING$50,000
IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW$50,000
FRIENDSHIP ACADEMY OF THE ARTS$50,000
NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 78 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171

Total granted

$11M

$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+48%

Still filing today

62%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

Y
YOUTHPRISE
5× · 2020–2024 · $933k · revenue +70%
TL
THE LINK
5× · 2019–2023 · $700k · revenue +124%
THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2022 · $380k · revenue +31%

Funded once

PH
PERIS HOUSING
one grant, 2020 · $849k
OY
OPPORTUNITY YOUTH NETWORK
one grant, 2023 · $250k
WE
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
one grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Minnesota Internship Center

To partner with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success.

Education

Minnesota Parent Union

MNPU is dedicated to creating an environment where the vision for education in Minnesota is created with children and families, not for them. We aim to eliminate the status quo so that school leaders and parents are partners in creating…

Education

Mental Health Minnesota

Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…

Health

Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education

African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services

Partners for Affordable Housing

Provides shelter for homeless families & individuals, & helps them to secure long-term housing.

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Family Pathways

Work alongside people and the community to enhance lives and champion positive social change.

Human Services

United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Social Venture Partners Minnesota

SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS MINNESOTA accelerates the impact of youth - serving nonprofits in the Twin Cities by fostering a community of engaged philanthropists. Our vision is a future where every young person has the opportunity to pursue a…

Philanthropy

Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education

Young Women's Christian Association

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services

Metropolitan Economic Development

Helping minority entrepreneurs succeed.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthlink and the most unlike its peers is Augsburg University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/132

the rest of the field

12%

1,635/13,133

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.

05the grantee network

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

122/127

Grantees still filing

100/127

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,361,811Education$2,453,881Human Services$1,886,878Youth Development$921,016Philanthropy$849,750Housing & Shelter$609,500Community Improvement$366,500

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN95.1× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Youthprise · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Target Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Mortenson Family 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 organisation JOHN AND DENISE GRAVES 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.

2024

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ADVANCING EQUITY COALITION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862864955 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ADVANCING EQUITY COALITION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to John and Denise Graves Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Denise Graves Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOHN AND DENISE GRAVES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Denise Graves Foundation?

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JOHN AND DENISE GRAVES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

127 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Denise Graves Foundation?

More from the funding graph