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John K & Margaret a Ogren Foundation at a glance

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John K & Margaret a Ogren Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$720kReligion$254kHealth$146kEducation$123kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$23kInternational$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$10,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
UNBOUND$2,136
PHILOMENA HOUSE$1,000
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU$1,000
NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES$1,000
THE CURING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE FOUNDATION$1,000
CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL$700
SENITIZO$500
VALLEY OUTREACH$500
CURE OF ARS$300
CORRIE'S HOUSE$250
INFANTS REMEMBERED IN SILENCE$250
02The need
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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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PHILOMENA HOUSE: $1k → 6%INFANTS REMEMBERED IN SILENCE: $250 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $250 → 6%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $300 → 11%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $100 → 14%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%VALLEY OUTREACH: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY THREAD: $1k → 6%VALLEY OUTREACH: $500 → 6%VALLEY OUTREACH: $500 → 6%CORRIE'S HOUSE: $250 → 6%CORRIE'S HOUSE: $250 → 6%FAMILY MEANS: $200 → 6%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $1k → 6%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $600 → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
CO
MD
KS
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$1.2M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +29%
  • U
    Unbound
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +2%
  • NL
    NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • WC
    Washington County Historical Society
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
2
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Cancer Legal Care

Cancer legal care's (clc) mission is to engage the law to resolve the complex challenges facing people and communities affected by cancer. since beginning to provide services to the minnesota cancer community on october 1, 2007, cancer…

Health
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
National Multiple Sclerosis Society

We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.

Health
8
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
The Center for Victims of Torture

The center for victims of torture works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.

International
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Bureau Inc; the most unlike its peers is Curing Alzheimers Disease Private Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 41 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $720,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONST MICHAELS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $205,600 · OtherST MICHAELS CATHOLIC CHURCHST CROIX CATHOLIC SCHOOL (SCCS) ENDOWMENT: $121,120 · OtherST CROIX CATHOLIC SCHOOL (SCCS) ENDOWMENT+16 more: $96,798 · Other+16 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBRO…MAYO CLINIC: $10,150 · HealthMAYO CLINICAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · Health+3 more: $1,500 · HealthUnbound: $17,538 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesValley Outreach: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC: $1,600 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY THREAD: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE PHILOMENA HOUSE CORP: $1,000 · Human Services+6 more: $1,600 · Human ServicesSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySENITIZO: $1,000 · InternationalCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $250 · Arts & CultureCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $60 · Education
Other$1,143,518Health$144,150Human Services$29,738Philanthropy$10,000International$1,000Arts & Culture$250Education$60

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWashington County Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUnbound: $17,538 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES: $8,768 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Outreach: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENITIZO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY THREAD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILOMENA HOUSE CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARRIAGE MATERIAL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCORRIE'S HOUSE: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Myositis Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYMEANS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $60 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFred C and Katherine …Catholic Community Fo…American Gift FundXcel Energy FoundationThe Raleigh FoundationThe Hubbard Broadcast…Hugh J Andersen Found…St Croix Valley Found…Andersen Corporate Fo…Ch Robinson Worldwide…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN27.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · American Gift Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Raleigh Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 John K & Margaret a Ogren Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John K & Margaret a Ogren Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 41 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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