· Private foundation
John E Desmond and Janet C Desmond Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of JOHN E DESMOND AND JANET C DESMOND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHFIELD SPARTAN FOUNDATION | $66,500 |
| NORMANDALE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BIG IDEAS INC | $17,000 |
| CORNERHOUSE | $12,000 |
| HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $11,000 |
| BANYAN COMMUNITY | $8,000 |
| MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL | $3,500 |
| MIDWEST SHOWMEN'S FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCORNERHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +71%
- HTHENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +125%
- TBThe Banyan Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LGLET'S GO FISHING SCOTT COUNTY AREAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- NSNORTHERN STAR COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -15%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +39%
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.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
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 create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…
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.
The mission of the minneapolis regional chamber development foundation is to offer innovative ways of reducing unemployment, improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth, initiate and conduct leadership development programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota State Fair Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big Ideas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 CORNERHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds Richfield Spartan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHOWMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPOT 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 · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 John E Desmond and Janet C Desmond 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.
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