· Private foundation
John and Margie Wiehoff Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k26 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST HUBERT'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $180,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $35,000 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION MN CHAPTER | $30,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT | $30,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATIONCOURAGE KENNY REHABILITATION INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $25,000 |
| YOUTH FRONTIERS INC | $25,000 |
| THE LIFT GARAGE | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS - SOUTH SHORE | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 9% of John and Margie Wiehoff 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, 98% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 91% — 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 +102% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- RFRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +228%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +102%
- EMEVERY MEAL6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +364%
Funded once
- GTGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -44%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +105%
- CCCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -74%
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.
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meals on Wheels - South Shore. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels - South Shore ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds FACE IT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING CURES TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · American Gift Fund · Bame Foundation · The K Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 John and Margie Wiehoff 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.