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John Larsen Foundation Mng Agy (Plg)
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $82,500 |
| LAKES AREA RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $35,000 |
| MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS | $35,000 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $24,500 |
| ST PAUL PARKS & RECREATION | $20,000 |
| OUTFRONT MINNESOTA | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES | $20,000 |
| CONSERVATION MINNESOTA | $15,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| PARK SQUARE THEATER | $15,000 |
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $12,500 |
| GIVEMN | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| AMAZE WORKS INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CMCONSERVATION MINNESOTA6× · 2020–2025 · $390k · revenue +23%
FRESH ENERGY6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +205%- AFADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION6× · 2020–2025 · $99k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MDMINNESOTA DISASTER RECOVERY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SPST PAUL PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MCMETROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -69%
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…
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
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 mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers and the most unlike its peers is Whitefish Area Property Owners Association. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 14% 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 44 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 CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds OUTFRONT MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR REPRODUCTIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AMAZEWORKS ↗
- Who funds GIVEMN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Council on Foundations ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH AREA PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALL SQUARE ↗
- Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
- Who funds PEASE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS ↗
- Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
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 · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The McKnight Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill 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 Larsen Foundation Mng Agy (Plg) 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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