· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k11 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNBOUND | $2,136 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| PHILOMENA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU | $1,000 |
| THE CURING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL | $700 |
| SENITIZO | $500 |
| VALLEY OUTREACH | $500 |
| CURE OF ARS | $300 |
| INFANTS REMEMBERED IN SILENCE | $250 |
| CORRIE'S HOUSE | $250 |
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, $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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +29%
- UUnbound9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +2%
- NLNEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF ST MICHAELone grant, 2017 · $25k
- WCWashington County Historical Societyone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -3%
- SPSAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
(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.
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…
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…
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,…
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Service Bureau Inc and 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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 41 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 CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washington County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Valley Outreach ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds CURING ALZHEIMERS DISEASE PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILOMENA HOUSE CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THREAD ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE MATERIAL ↗
- Who funds SENITIZO ↗
- Who funds CORRIE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds INFANTS REMEMBERED IN SILENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
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: 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
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 K & Margaret a Ogren 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.