· Private foundation
John W Mooty Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $787k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $955k
- $250k+1 grant · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $387,499 |
| THE GRACE UPON GRACE MOOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| RIO VERDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $199,900 |
| HOPE ACADEMY | $100,206 |
| ALL PEOPLES CHURCH TWIN CITIES | $100,206 |
| CITY OF EDINA | $99,184 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH | $65,410 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,206 |
| JOYCE UPTOWN FOOD SHELF | $50,000 |
| GRACE-TRINITY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $50,000 |
| EVERY MEAL | $45,381 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $35,000 |
| TREVOR PROJECT | $35,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $34,500 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 11 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +105%
- TGTHE GRACE UPON GRACE MOOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +68% · 82% of their budget
- HAHOPE ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $611k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION - CARLSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +291%
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 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 be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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,…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Grace Upon Grace Mooty Family Foundation. 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 30 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 165 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE UPON GRACE MOOTY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIO VERDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARRIER FREE GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
- Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
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 · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Grace Upon Grace Mooty Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · The K Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy 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 W Mooty Foundation Trust 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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